[CUBE] HD upgrade advice needed

[Richard Clark]

On Tuesday, Jul 8, 2003, at 20:50 Europe/Rome, Michal the Milkman wrote:

> Here's one for the collective experts,
>
> It's my turn to get a WD Cavier 120 for my cube. I ran Carbon Copy 
> Cloner and everything looked good along the way but I just can't boot 
> from that new drive. It could be those jumpers or it could be a 
> problem with the system. I did change the startup disk in System Prefs 
> before moving on with the install and I get a flashing ? for a few 
> seconds while the cube searches for the system.

did you install the open firmware password by any chance? i had the 
same type of problem when i put in my jb, check that your jumpers are 
right, reset pram and all those neat tricks then try to hit alt when 
your booting up and see if a password window comes up, dial in your 
password and select your drive again and if thats the problem your up 
and running.

Richard
>
> For the moment, I'm running with the original HD where the CD would be 
> and the power cable pulled from the new HD, which is already installed 
> in the cube. When I have the power on that drive, no combination of 
> jumper positions on either drive seems to boot. I've got an iMac also 
> running Jag, should I try booting the cube in Target Disk Mode and... 
> not sure what actually. Is there a Jag startup CD?
>
> Hoping to move past this so I can install a PL 1Gig card. Apple's got 
> my number: digital video, digital camera, new used iPod... I hit the 
> Cube's limits quick with all these toys.
>
> Thanks in advance guys and gals,