Beige g3 new hard drive/new os9 install CD won't mount

[Alan Cottrill]

I have a beige g3 266mhz desktop. I installed a new hard drive and reinstalled os 9.2.1. it will boot from the CD drive, but if I boot from the hard drive it won't mount cd's when inserted and the drive is not listed in the system profiler. any ideas?

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Hrm, you mention that you reloaded OS 9. Perhaps the "Apple CD/DVD Driver" Extension is missing?

 

[Alan Cottrill]

extension is there and enabled

 

[JRL]

Is the HD set correctly?

 

[Alan Cottrill]

I just installed a SCSI CD drive and it mounts just fine. Still no action on the IDE bus.

the new hard drive is a Quantum with the same jumper arrangement as the original Quantum, so I set them the same.

 

[Alan Cottrill]

Just to rule it out I tried another CD drive, (completely not expecting it to work since the machine would boot from the cd just wouldn't mount.) and guess what... Problem Solved