vacputer
Well-known member
Bottom line up front: Does anyone know what a negative 2000 series error in OS 9 is supposed to indicate?
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I just ran into an odd symptom while troubleshooting what I'm pretty sure is a bad SATA cable in my G4 (I shouldn't have expected a short-tipped straight cable to survive a 90º bend for long without strain relief). With the boot drive connected through the bad cable it'd start up just fine in OS X but OS 9 would bomb, indicating "System Error -2817" immediately after loading extensions. This would happen consistently even when booting from CD. I checked Apple's KB articles enumerating the various error numbers and there doesn't appear to be a negative 2000 series listed anywhere.
I have a new (correctly left-angled) cable on order so it shouldn't be a problem going forward, but I'm curious about the error. Does anyone have any information on what -2000 errors are intended to indicate, or why OS 9 would promptly halt over a (seemingly relatively unproblematic) disk error while OS X gave no indication at all of a problem, either up-front or in the system log?
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I just ran into an odd symptom while troubleshooting what I'm pretty sure is a bad SATA cable in my G4 (I shouldn't have expected a short-tipped straight cable to survive a 90º bend for long without strain relief). With the boot drive connected through the bad cable it'd start up just fine in OS X but OS 9 would bomb, indicating "System Error -2817" immediately after loading extensions. This would happen consistently even when booting from CD. I checked Apple's KB articles enumerating the various error numbers and there doesn't appear to be a negative 2000 series listed anywhere.
I have a new (correctly left-angled) cable on order so it shouldn't be a problem going forward, but I'm curious about the error. Does anyone have any information on what -2000 errors are intended to indicate, or why OS 9 would promptly halt over a (seemingly relatively unproblematic) disk error while OS X gave no indication at all of a problem, either up-front or in the system log?