[X4U] Sewing new cloth into old rags...

[Conlon Brett]

Hiya,

Merry Christmas, happy holidays & new year to all!

Strange email subject but it relates... kinda  ;-D

My son has an old G3 (Blu&White) with an 18 & 9GB drive. He has his OS  
on the 18GB drive.

At work, one of my colleagues pulled all of the RAM & drives out of  
some of our Creo RIPs and the drives happened to be 36GB, 15K RPM,  
Ultra SCSI (ST336753LW). I grabbed 4 for my son hoping to put 3 X 36GB  
in his G3 and keep one as a spare.

I can get them to mount as data drives but have had NO luck booting  
off any of them (installed 10.4.10). All I get is a grey screen then  
the flippin' questionmark. I've tried jumpering it so that the drive  
spins up instantly, just in case it was waiting for the signal from  
the computer. The SCSI cable has its own terminator on the end and the  
SCSI card is the Adaptec 2940U2B (came with the G3). The J6  
(underside) jumpers are now empty.

The Drive ID's are currently (from closest to furthest from SCSI card  
in the chain) 18GB: 0  / 36GB: 1  /  36GB:2

The drives are labelled eServer xSeries with IBM part numbers but when  
I look up the model number they show as Seagate Cheetah drives.

What might be causing them to not be bootable? Anyone have Ultra SCSI  
experience and seen this before?

Ta muchly!

Cojcolds