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It may be the battery. They will not boot with a dead battery but they will without it in the logic board. Try taking the battery out and see if they power up. ->Ben

I had the exact same issue with an external Yamaha drive that was working fine on my 8500 but not on my Quadra. I installed the "Apple's Universal CD ROM Driver 5.3.2" and all is well. Give it a shot and see if that works. Assuming all the SCSI termination and numbering is correct...

Thanks for all the help. As always, much appreciated. I finally found the solution here: http://new.lowendmac.com/sable/07/mac-drive-setup-patch.html I was using drive setup 1.5 but not the patched version. Now I can format any of my drives and they are all seen boot and work like a champ...

I'm pretty sure they are. I terminated the internal HD and removed the external chain. Do you know if the internal drive needs to be terminated on the CC?

I recently acquired 2 color classics on CL and while I can boot them from an external CD drive, format the HD with drive setup 1.7.3 and install the OS, 7.1, 7.5, 7.5.3 or 7.6.1, I can not get them to then boot the internal HD after the install is over. I replaced the PRAM battery, made sure to...

Does anyone out there have any recent information on this? ;-) Thanks.