[CUBE] Formatting in external firewire drive

[Allan Hise]

Did you change the master/slave jumper on the new hard drive?
Internally, it should be a master, in the firewire enclosure, I am not
sure it matters, but I'd set it the same way the working drive in your
enclosure was set to.

Allan

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Fran Adams wrote:

> I'm having difficulty formatting a new seagate 80 gig so I can try out
> Jaguar (Yes, this cube list has convinced me to take the leap of faith).
> I installed the new drive internally and formatted it into 6 partitions
> using a 10.2 Jag CD. The partition for the OS X is 20 gig. The format
> completed OK and I then attempted to install Jag. No such luck, the
> installer quit and the partition for the system disappeared. I've been
> unable to get the partition to reload after restarting the cube with the
> Jag CD. The other partitions show up fine.
>
> I then installed the new drive in my external firewire case (replacing
> the 30 gig there) but the cube (running 9.2.2) refuses to recognize the
> new drive at all. The old 30 gig was reinstalled and was recognized fine.
>
> This is likely a simple thing, but at the moment, I'm stymied. I've read
> suggestions about formatting the drive into 8 gig partitions for the
> system installation (internally mounted), but before I tear the cube
> apart again, I'd like some opinions as to what I'm missing.
>
> Thanks for any enlightenment.
>
> - Fran Adams
>
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