[Ham-Mac] OS Systems

Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:37:51 +0200 (MEST)

I experienced a related problem as i wanted to replace my original 6GB HD
from my G3 b&w 
desktop with a larger HD. I got told that there are a lot of Midage Macs
witch only accepts a 
boot-partition (the first one) from less than 2,0 GB. So i would try to use
the first partition as the 
boot partition and would give that partition as less as possible space ...
maybe only 1 GB or so. 
If it works you could retry with 1,98GB or so . Maybe that will solve your
problem .
btw: in my case (G3 350 B&W Rev A from spring 1999) it was a corrupted IDE
Controller, for 
witch this Modell was famous :-((, I solved it with an raid controller
PCI-card (what of course 
cannot be done @ your Laptop)

Good Luck

Gerhard

> 	John,
> 
> 	I have both 2300 and 3400 laptops, and find that MacOS 9.1 runs on the
> 3400 just fine, but takes up to much of what limited memory the 2300 has
> to be useful. I run MacOS 8.1 on the 2300, which is considerably less of
> a "Memory Hog" than 9.x where the Maxed Out 2300 is only 54Megs.  My
> 3400 is Maxed out at 144Meg and fully tricked out, with  a full
> comp0ilment of PCMCIA cards for all the usual externals. (802.11b, USB,
> Compact Flash & SmartMedia R/W, 10/100 Ethernet/56K Modem, ect)  
> 	I have one big problem with my 3400, and maybe some here, has the answer.
> It came with 2G Harddrive.  I have tried to replace this drive with both
> an IBM 6.2G TravelStar, and an AppleRom'd IBM 8G from a Pismo, both with
> the same problem.  They both booted just fine untill I partitioned them
> in to multiple drives.  After that they both refused to boot any
> operating system what so ever. (MacOS 8.0 - MacOS 9.1)  I reformated 
> them using the latest DriveSetup from Apple, installed the latest
> drivers from Apple, and also Third Party Drivers as well, all to no
> avail. I get a bong, and a "Happy Face" than it just Hangs like it can't
> find the OS Boot loader.  Am I missing something here, or what?  I can
> reinstall the original 2G drive and everything works, but once a
> partitioned drive is installed, NO BOOT.   any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.
> -- 
>   Bruce (semiretired powderman & exFCC Field Inspector for Southeastern
> Alaska)
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