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Posted by: istar1018 on 2008-11-23 11:20:07
Hey all -
Anyone have any luck installing A/UX 3.0.1 on anything with a SCSI-IDE adaptor. I've got an ACARD SCSI-IDE adaptor on my Q950's internal SCSI bus, and I've tried to attach it to various things - an old Quantum fireball, a CF adaptor, a 6.4 gb WD drive. Regardless of what is attached, the A/UX install boot process hangs when the Welcome to the Apple Workgroup Server 95 progress bar is completed (when the text changes to say Please wait. This will take a while.).
This same Q950 boots into 7.1, 7.5.5 and 8.1 just fine with the ACARD adaptor, so I think it works... and when I remove the adaptor, A/UX setup boots just fine (albeit with complaints about the lack of SCSI drives). I'm using original media, so it shouldn't be a disc issue.
Anyone gotten this to work or have suggestions about how to tweak the install process?
Thanks!
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Posted by: porter on 2008-11-23 12:01:47
Please wait. This will take a while. So it is not lying then.
Are drives smaller than 2Gig?
Have you partitioned them prior?
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Posted by: istar1018 on 2008-11-23 21:32:55
It definitely is not lying, as I let it sit overnight, and nada. No progress.
The Quantum and the CF card are smaller than 2 gigs, the WD is bigger. The WD is partitioned into a few 1 gig partitions and then some free unpartitioned space. I've tried the Quantum pre-partitioned and with all partitions deleted, and same for the CF card.
Termination should be okay, since everything is rock solid under normal Mac OS.
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Posted by: paws on 2008-11-24 04:57:17
How did you partition them? You need to use the Apple tools¸ I think.
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Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-12-02 13:20:26
Could it be an Apple ROM issue? Don't the hard drives need to be formatted with the Apple disk tools or a patched version to allow the drives to function with the computer?
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Posted by: porter on 2008-12-02 13:37:20
A/UX requires different drivers to those used by Mac OS. NuBus cards may contain drivers for Mac OS, but not A/UX (as far as I know).
Operating systems often have a hard job using a volume as it's root drive for which it does not have a driver in the kernel.
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Posted by: istar1018 on 2008-12-02 16:30:02
Well, so a bit of an update. Yes, all of the drives are formatted with Apple tools - either hacked HD SC setup, A/UX HD SC setup, or Drive Setup in Panther.
No dice.
When I remove the drives but leave the acard adaptor connected to the scsi bus, A/UX setup boots but then complains about having no scsi disks... hmm.
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