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

[Zane H. Healy]

It might be an issue with the firmware on the drives.  I seem to 
remember that some IBM LVD SCSI drives can have special firmware, so 
that you're required to use their drives to boot their servers.  I 
don't know if this is what you're running into or not.

Also, you will want to make sure the Mac can handle keeping the drives cool.

Zane



At 1:05 PM +1100 12/30/09, Conlon Brett wrote:
>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
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