[G4] Not booting G4 from External SCSI HD

[John Niven]

Mel,

I have use/used ATTO UL2 and UL3 pci cards to boot G3 & G4 towers from internal drives, even in striped RAID configurations. It should not be different with external drives. Most SCSI problems relate to improper termination, or i.d. assignments.

John 


--- On Sun, 7/20/08, Mel <mllwrm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mel <mllwrm at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [G4] Not booting G4 from External SCSI HD
> To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 1:09 PM
> I am writing this on a G4 DA, 667 MHz, 768 SDRAM  and two
> 7200 RPM internal hard drives running under ATA protocol
> and both installed with OS 9 drivers,  one hard drive not
> partitioned and booting under OS 10.4.11 and one hard 
> drive partitioned and booting from either OS 10.4.11 or 
> OS 10.2.8.  The internal hard drives are: 
> 
> 1- 37GB model WDC WD400-JB-00TAG
> 2- 74GB model ST380021A 
> 
> The G4 came with an Adaptec 2906 PCI card that allows me to
> read from or write interchangeably to any of the three
> external SCSI hard drives all with OS 10.2.8 installed or
> any of the two internal hard drives.
> 
> However, I cannot boot from  any of these external hard
> drives as the 2906 PCI card will not do that.
> 
> Question: Is there any Adaptec PCI card or any other
> manufacturer's PCI card that will allow me to boot from
> a external SCSI hard drive with OS 10.2.8 or with any OS  X
> installed  on the external hard drive?
> 
> Mel
> 
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