[G4] installin os9

[Philip J Robar]

On May 30, 2006, at 10:02 PM, Ronald Steinke wrote:

> On 30 May, 2006, at 6:33:13, cerebus DaPope wrote:
>
>> put in an os9 disk and turned it on pressing "c"
>> before i had a hard drive my cinema desplay would show a folder  
>> with a question mark
>> now its just black
>>
>> if i reboot, i get an image for a second then blackness
>>
>> i'm sure its waiting for me to do something what should i be doing?
>
> It is possible that your hard drive identification bridge (a little  
> plastic piece with a metal center) is on the wrong set of  
> identifying pins.

Just to avoid confusion this is normally called a "jumper".


> The bridge should be on the "Master" set of pins if it is the only  
> hard drive that is installed in the machine.
>
> Many drives have printed identifying marks on the circuit board  
> surface. For example, the letters "CS" and the words "Master" and  
> "Slave". Sometimes a Mac will refuse to see a hard drive if it is  
> set to be "Cable Select" instead of "Master" or "Slave".

This is all documented at Apple's site, which the original poster  
should have checked before asking questions of the list. Officially  
the Digital Audio G4 does not support cable select. I'd be surprised  
if this is actually true, as Apple would have have to have gone out  
of their way to make this happen on this late a model of G4, but I  
don't have a DA G4 to test.

The URL for the DA G4 set up guide is http://manuals.info.apple.com/ 
Apple_Support_Area/Manuals/desktops/0341025APMG4SU.PDF. It covers  
adding a new drive. It took me less than a minute to find it using  
Google.


Phil
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