Subject: Re: mixing scsi and ata
From: Mark Martin (mark.martin@duke.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 08:06:33 MDT
Dave,
Have you considered swapping your installs, running LINUX off of
the SCSI drive, and running OS9 off of the ATA? That is how I
got mine to work. My BIGGEST problem was during the disk setup
getting the SWAP partition to be valid.
Also, YDL page 4.2, "...yaboot is far simpler on IDE drives then
on SCSI..." Also from the YDL website, "... yaboot does not yet have
the ablitly to read from SCSI drives..."
Hope this helps...
Cheers, and good luck!
Mark Martin
mark.martin@duke.edu
Dave Grote wrote:
> I have gotten absolutely nowhere with installing YDL on my new G4. I
> have MacOS 9 running on a scsi hard drive and have the pre-installed YDL
> which only came on a ATA drive. I can't get the computer to boot up
> using the ATA drive. I've tried various jumper configurations on the
> ATA. It always comes up mac. I've tried booting up with the scsi drive
> unplugged. The computer doesn't boot at all. I've booted up off of the
> CD (holding down 'c') and linux actually starts to boot but gets hung up
> on the scsi - then the screen turns yellow and nothing else happens.
>
> When I have macos running, it does see the ATA drive, reporting that
> there are no hfs partitions, so I know that the drive is connected
> properly.
>
> Has anyone else dealt with this situation or know what to do? Would it
> be easier to just buy a second scsi drive and install linux on it from
> the cd's?
> Thanks for your help
> Dave
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