[G4] Problems with install

Udo Zumdick screams at gmx.net
Thu Sep 29 05:45:52 PDT 2005


Kevin Willis wrote:
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> When I boot from my OS 9 CD, i can't get Disk Utility to 
> detect the hard drive.  The drives in my G4 are set to Cable Select, but 
> the drive I put in the G3 doesn't have a Cable Select setting.  So, I 
> set it to Master/Single drive as it is the only drive on the IDE cable.  

Sounds strange.
Did your mac not recognize only the partition or the whole harddisk ?
Did you install the OS9 driver during installation/partitioning through 
Jaguar ? If not, OS 9 will not be able to see the partitions. Did you 
try another harddisk  or the same harddisk on another computer ?

Udo


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