[mcdoken]

Drive Setup on the OS9 CD lists the factory installed IDE drive in my Beige G3 as <not supported>

Here is what happened. I had 8.6 on the machine. I installed OSX DP4 on a single partition without leaving a separate partion with OS9 on it (because I didn't have the OS9 CD handy at the time). It reformats the drive as part of this process. It installed beautifully and worked perfectly. Only thing was there was no classic environment to play with.

So the next day, I decided to start over again and reformat drive doing a clean install of OS9 and creating two partitions. One HFS+ and one UFS. The process also updates the HD drivers. Install process completed as expected. Upon restart, it sees no bootable drive.

If I boot off the OS9 CD and run DriveSetup it lists the main drive as <not supported> and won't mount it or even allow reformat or re-initialization.

If I try to boot off the OSX DP4 CD it begins the boot and then says something about the OS9 volume not being writable and offering a dialog box with only a "restart" option.

Apparently the HD driver or partitions are somehow totally unusable by OS9 in its current state. I've tried every utility I've got, but none can even recognize or mount the drive.

Anybody have any thoughts on how to get this drive to be usable again? Help!

thanks.

if you have acess to another IDE bussed computer (Mac or PC) tyr formating that under that machine. You'd probably have luck using an old Performa or IDE based Quadra using OS 8 or something.

I've screwed up my hard drives several times, and I always had sucess taking the drive out and putting it into my old Quadra 630 and formating it HFS. Good luck.



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Eliott Wolfe
Winnetka, Calif

[mcdoken]

OK I got it figured out now. Maybe someone else can learn from my mistake.

After a couple tries zapping pram and holding down option key, I finally got it to boot OS9. Then I discovered that
the OS9 installer CD installed an earlier version of the hd driver without checking. So OSX couldn't boot. For some reason it also prevents the OSX CD from booting as well.

So after I got the drive setup (v 1.9.2) off the OSX cd and onto something else, I was able to boot off the OS9 CD,
update the HD driver (3.2.5 instead of 3.2.4) then reinstall OSX on the partition that it was already on. Now it works
perfectly.OK I got it figured out now. Maybe someone else can learn from my mistake.

After a couple tries zapping pram and holding down option key, I finally got it to boot OS9. Then I discovered that
the OS9 installer CD installed an earlier version of the hd driver without checking. So OSX couldn't boot. For some reason it prevents the OSX CD from booting as well.

So after I got the drive setup (v 1.9.2) off the OSX cd and onto something else, I was able to boot off the OS9 CD,
update the HD driver (3.2.5 instead of 3.2.4) then reinstall OSX on the partition that it was already on. Now it works
perfectly.