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Posted by: theos911 on 2011-07-20 07:00:25
I recently got a B&W Powermac G3 400 Rev.2 w/768mb of RAM for 25$. It had several issues, mostly relating to its SCSI disk failing and the IDE disk I was trying to use also being dead. It came with its original 8.6 restore disc; and using that I now have a clean install on a 40gb IDE drive on the ATA/33 channel. When I get a set of Tiger CD's I'm going to try putting that on it.
The Issue: It won't accept two devices on the 16.7 channel. If I have both the CD drive AND the Zip drive connected on the same channel(as they are supposed to be) it refuses to boot. After chiming it will show a gray screen and then a folder with a ? and is unresponsive to a reset from the power button. (Meaning to turn it off, I must pull the plug) Has anyone had this issue or know what may be causing it?
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2011-07-20 07:20:29
Make sure the drives are set to cable select so there are no conflicts (or manualy set one to master and one to slave).
I recall one of my B&W systems (modified to G4 ZIF) had issues something like that and it was tracked down to a bad IDE cable.
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Posted by: theos911 on 2011-07-20 08:25:16
It is working now. The original cable is fine. I had to switch the jumpers from their factory defaults of CD as master and zip as Slave to the opposite.(CD-Slave, Zip-Master) It now recognizes both perfectly fine.
Also, for those who are curious, the drive is a Sony CD-R/RW Model # CRX140E.
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Posted by: theos911 on 2011-12-27 16:17:58
(CD-Slave, Zip-Master) Please note: This will likely leave you unable to boot from CD.
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