Power Mac 7600 and XPostFacto

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Power Mac 7600 and XPostFacto

I've just upgraded a Power Mac 7600 with Sonnet's Crescendo G4 1GHz and it runs OS 9.2.2 great.
So I decided to try OSX 10.3 Panther via XPostFacto. This PowerMac has installed ant ATI Rage 128 and a Sonnet Tempo Ultra ATA 66 PCI Card (Both pulled from my B&W G3 400MHz). There's a Maxtor 60 GB HD and a LaCie CD-RW Burner attached independently to the Tempo Card. When launched, XPostFacto 4.0 doesn't see the Maxtor drive as a bootable one. The OSX Install CD shows at the bottom of the window. Should I install another IDE drive (as a slave) to select it as a helper disk or attach a SCSI drive to the internal bus?

Thanks for all the info

G3 400 BW/ 1 GB RAM/ 80GB, 120GB HD/ DVR-111D/ ATI Radeon 7000/ Tempo Trio 133, Mac OS X (10.3.x), iBook G4 1.33 GHz/ 1,25 GB RAM/ 60 GB HD/ 120 GB HD FW/ Mac OS X 10.3.9

Posted on Jan 3, 2008 5:22 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 3, 2008 9:05 PM in response to nOmada

I'm a bit out of depth on this one but I'll chip in. First, if you are using a G4 upgrade do you still need XPF? Second, I am wondering if because the Maxtor is connected to a PCI card that that may present issues as to it being used as a boot drive, at least as far as XPF is concerned. I'm recalling that non-native Firewire ports (e.g., on PCI cards) can't be used to boot the way native ports can, at least on older G3s.

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hockeyboy

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Jan 3, 2008 10:11 PM in response to nOmada

You still do need to use Xpost Facto when installing OS X as the G4 isn't its native processor and it won't let you. Another thing to do is to make sure that the drives are correctly IDed and terminated.

Im a bit fuzzy on this as I haven't used it in a while, but when using XPF, I think that the startup disc that is selected means the cd to boot from when installing, not the startup drive.

I know that it should work on the ATA card as I have done the same install in the past.

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Jeff

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Jan 4, 2008 10:08 AM in response to nOmada

If the 60 GB hard drive was not connected to the Sonnet Ultra ATA-66 controller card when it was previously formatted, you probably need to reformat it now. This ensures that a SCSI driver is written to the drive, which is necessary because many IDE controllers cards and connected drives appear as SCSI devices to the System. As for the LaCie CD-RW drive being connected to the Tempo card, does it support removable media devices?

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nOmada Author

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Jan 4, 2008 6:46 PM in response to Jeff

Thanks all of you guys for your feedback

Jeff, I really can't remember if it was formatted with the Tempo Card. Is there a way to tell if it was?
About the LaCie I don't understand your question; I've burned CD-RWs and read some Data CDs, Audio and MP3 CDs. Before the G4 Upgrade I was able to boot from a Mac OS 8.6 and 9.1 CD. Now the OS 9.1 CD doesn't boot and the 8.6 CD hangs when loading some extensions and that leads me wonder how would I boot from a Mac OS CD to format the Maxtor drive?

Thanks again

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Jeff

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Jan 4, 2008 8:42 PM in response to nOmada

" Before the G4 Upgrade I was able to boot from a Mac OS 8.6 and 9.1 CD. Now the OS 9.1 CD doesn't boot and the 8.6 CD hangs when loading some extensions..."

The Mac OS installer CDs don't have the Sonnet extension that loads first at startup. If you removed the G4 upgrade and reinstalled the original processor card, you should be able to boot from the OS 9.1 or 8.6 CD normally and format the hard drive.

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nOmada Author

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Jan 17, 2008 6:40 PM in response to Jeff

Thanks guys for all your help. The Maxtor drive was formatted as Mac OS Standard. I didn't realized that was the problem until I attached an old 6 GB formatted as Mac OS Extended and XPosFacto saw it as a bootable drive. After formatting, XPostFacto allowed me to select the Maxtor Drive for OSX installation. I had problems installing Panther. I tried three times but it freezed after a while and it read there was problems installing Panther. So I decided to try with Tiger and it worked, the only thing that had problem with was when asked for the second install CD ( it didn't eject the CD ) but I figured out how to put the second CD and it finished installation. It's amazing to see a 10 year old Power Mac running Tiger! So far it's been pretty fast and reliable. It's like having a new Mac. I run Power Fractal and performs outstandingly!

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