superpantoufle
Well-known member
Hi all,
Funny, it seems there's a lot of topics about the 9500 these days. Actually I just "liberated" one of those beasts for myself two days ago. I got it pretty cheap and it came with a 300 MHz G3 card and a LaCie SCSI CD burner but the poor guy was indeed in an awful state. Dirty as hell outside and inside, it wouldn't boot at first, and the back panel nearly disintegrated itself when I opened the case.
Well, long story short it took me quite some time to clean it and test the Ram, the drives and the cards, but it's up and running, only with a dead internal CD drive. But the external LaCie drive allowed me to boot from a CD, format the hard drives and install a clean Mac OS 9. Everything fine!
But today I thought I'd try to install OS X on it using XPostFacto, just because I can… And the damn LaCie drive won't mount any CD any more! It won't boot from the CD it used to install OS 9 just hours ago either. I tried another external Cd drive I had in stock with no luck. The Apple CD/DVD extension is installed; SCSIProbe can see the drive but fails to mount any CD. I guess I'm missing something, but can't figure out what. I certainly don't have any driver for the LaCie, but it read CDs hours ago without a driver either…
Any idea?
I guess the issue is more related to software or to the external SCSI drives, but anyway. Sorry if I posted in the wrong place.
Funny, it seems there's a lot of topics about the 9500 these days. Actually I just "liberated" one of those beasts for myself two days ago. I got it pretty cheap and it came with a 300 MHz G3 card and a LaCie SCSI CD burner but the poor guy was indeed in an awful state. Dirty as hell outside and inside, it wouldn't boot at first, and the back panel nearly disintegrated itself when I opened the case.
Well, long story short it took me quite some time to clean it and test the Ram, the drives and the cards, but it's up and running, only with a dead internal CD drive. But the external LaCie drive allowed me to boot from a CD, format the hard drives and install a clean Mac OS 9. Everything fine!
But today I thought I'd try to install OS X on it using XPostFacto, just because I can… And the damn LaCie drive won't mount any CD any more! It won't boot from the CD it used to install OS 9 just hours ago either. I tried another external Cd drive I had in stock with no luck. The Apple CD/DVD extension is installed; SCSIProbe can see the drive but fails to mount any CD. I guess I'm missing something, but can't figure out what. I certainly don't have any driver for the LaCie, but it read CDs hours ago without a driver either…
Any idea?
I guess the issue is more related to software or to the external SCSI drives, but anyway. Sorry if I posted in the wrong place.