[CUBE] Help! Problem installing OS X

[TonVanHest]

Luis,

I have a Maxtor 120 Gb, 7200 rpm, 8 Mb. It was the cheapest available 
one.

Op 9-jul-04 om 14:28 heeft Luis Meleiro het volgende geschreven:

> Ton,
>
> This same *issue* happened to me once. I bought a 120GB Western 
> Digital HD and misteriously, I was unable to install a fresh Mac OS X 
> in there. Opening Disk Utility from the Panther boot CDs did let me 
> manage formating, partitioning, etc., altough and as far as I 
> remember, the message was "You can not install Mac OS X in this disk" 
> (correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> I tried just about everything. Changed jumper settings, disconnected 
> the DVD drive, no way.
> So I attached my external LaCie FW CD-RW to the Cube. Booted the 
> Panther install CD from there, and everything worked flawlessly this 
> way.
>
> Nevertheless I never came to a conclusion on this and really can't 
> tell you what was goin' on.
>
> Just curious... what brand/model is your new 120GB HDD!?
>
> LM
>
>>>> a.vanhest at chello.nl - 2004/07/09 13:12 PM >>>
> (I will reply to all in this message).
>
> The drive was set as master and I did try to partition/format using the
> diskutility from the install. This gave no problems.
>
> Then I got an idea.
>
> I tried whether or not I could use the Cube in Taget mode. This was no
> problem and subsequently I succeeded in transfering from my iMac to the
> Cube using Carbon Copy Cloner.
>
> Also I was then able to boot the HD containing the OS.
>
> Then I tried again to use the OS X install disks and this time they
> worked flawlessly!
>
> So now all is well, except that I would still like to know what could
> have caused this.
>
> Gr,
> Ton