waynestewart
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I picked up a 867mhz QuickSilver because it was advertised as having a SATA card and the price was less than I would have paid for the SATA card alone.. No drives though. I installed an ATA drive off my other QS as well as a SATA drive. Booted the machine and installed OSX on the SATA drive. Then booted off the SATA drive. Next I installed OS 9 off a CD. When I tried booting OS 9 off the SATA drive it went as far the OS 9 toaster Mac icon and stopped.
I tried copying my system from the ATA drive with the same results.
The card had 5.3.1 firmware so I tried the 5.1.3 firmware. Same results.
Then I tried moving the card and drive over to my 933mhz QS but that didn’t help.
Then I stopped for a coffee and my brain started functioning a little better. Of course, no OS 9 driver. Formatted the drive under OS 9, copied everything over and booted OS 9. Everything's working well.
Now I have to decide what to do with the older QS. I’ve got way too many Macs and Apple IIs right now. Get rid of it? Pull the power supply and get rid of it?
I tried copying my system from the ATA drive with the same results.
The card had 5.3.1 firmware so I tried the 5.1.3 firmware. Same results.
Then I tried moving the card and drive over to my 933mhz QS but that didn’t help.
Then I stopped for a coffee and my brain started functioning a little better. Of course, no OS 9 driver. Formatted the drive under OS 9, copied everything over and booted OS 9. Everything's working well.
Now I have to decide what to do with the older QS. I’ve got way too many Macs and Apple IIs right now. Get rid of it? Pull the power supply and get rid of it?
