I am a mac tech here in CT.

Have a new BW G3 350. The built in drive (a Quantum 6 GB Ultra DMA) crapped out a week ago) I did call Apple. But instead of waiting for a hard drive and a knuckle headed Comp USA service dept., I bought a new Maxtor 8 GB ultra DMA drive.

I installed it on the Ultra DMA bus as the Master (its the only IDE drive actually.

Formated the drive into 2 partitions, with Drive setup, put OS 8.5.1 on one and 8.6bp on the other (partition)

Runs fine, but every other startup, I get the Damn, System Folder?, It doesn't the drive All the time. I have to Reboot and it comes up.


Is it the drive, Mac OS 8.6b9 (although I believe it does the same with the Mac OS 8.5.1 partition) the hard drivers which are the drivers from 8.6b9, the on board battery, (not the cable, tried several), is the the motherboard Ultra DMA controller?

Can't figure out, Has anyone seen this?

John Klimeck

I will post my own reply,

It looks like it only does it with 8.6b9, not with the 8.5.1 partition.

I also have a Grappler 903 or 930 SCSI card with a narrow Quantum Viking SCSI-3 drive, applied the beta firmware update, Still CAN NOT BOOT from the SCSI drive.

Do not know if this had an affect on the machine as a whole.

JK

Any feeddback would be cool , thanks