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

[Conlon Brett]

Thanks Zane! I'll keep an eye on the temp. Ta also for the potential  
heads-up on the firmware.

Anyone else have any thoughts on how to get the drive/s bootable?

Cheers,

Brett


On 30/12/2009, at 1:27 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> 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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