superpantoufle
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Hi all!
This question would probably fit as well in the "peripherals" forum, but my guess is that most PCI cards users certainly hang up around here.
I just purchased a brand new Acard 6280M PCI card as well as a brand new 320 Gb ATA hard drive as my new "old world software backup" setup.
I'm not sure yet which of my machines will host that stuff, but this is irrelevant to my question.
As of today, I tried both the card and the drive in a 9500 and a desktop beige G3. Everything works fine, except I can't boot from the drive. I could format it and it mounts and works in the Finder under both OS 9 and OS X just as expected. It is recognized flawlessly ba Apple System Profile. I can install OS 9 on it, no problem.
But when I reboot the computer, it would begin to start up, and suddenly reset just as I see the smiling Mac. And then it reboots on the internal IDE drive instead of the new one.
And I can see in the Finder that the System Folder on the new drive gets "de-blessed" in the process. And no matter how many times I manually "re-blessed" it, it would fail to reboot on it. I saw the exact same behavior on both the G3 and the 9500 (with a G3 upgrade).
Searching the web, I got hint at a firmware update issued by Acard to allow booting from drives larger than 160 Gb, but it appears my card is up-to-date (firmware 2.16).
I'm certainly missing somethin pretty obvious, because the card is clearly advertised as bootable, and there's plenty of positive comments and reviews around the web. Does somebody have any suggestion?
Many thanks in advance!
This question would probably fit as well in the "peripherals" forum, but my guess is that most PCI cards users certainly hang up around here.
I just purchased a brand new Acard 6280M PCI card as well as a brand new 320 Gb ATA hard drive as my new "old world software backup" setup.
I'm not sure yet which of my machines will host that stuff, but this is irrelevant to my question.
As of today, I tried both the card and the drive in a 9500 and a desktop beige G3. Everything works fine, except I can't boot from the drive. I could format it and it mounts and works in the Finder under both OS 9 and OS X just as expected. It is recognized flawlessly ba Apple System Profile. I can install OS 9 on it, no problem.
But when I reboot the computer, it would begin to start up, and suddenly reset just as I see the smiling Mac. And then it reboots on the internal IDE drive instead of the new one.
And I can see in the Finder that the System Folder on the new drive gets "de-blessed" in the process. And no matter how many times I manually "re-blessed" it, it would fail to reboot on it. I saw the exact same behavior on both the G3 and the 9500 (with a G3 upgrade).
Searching the web, I got hint at a firmware update issued by Acard to allow booting from drives larger than 160 Gb, but it appears my card is up-to-date (firmware 2.16).
I'm certainly missing somethin pretty obvious, because the card is clearly advertised as bootable, and there's plenty of positive comments and reviews around the web. Does somebody have any suggestion?
Many thanks in advance!
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