Subject: Re: PowerMac 8600 with Sonnet ATA PCI Card
From: Paul Guba (gubavision@home.com)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 13:06:33 MST
I has a similar problem with an 8500. I did this created a small mac
boot partition for bootx on ide drive. The remaining disk is
unallocated. Disconnected all other internal drives connected to the
machine except CD ROM of course. Install went fine after that. I did
not have the sdb instead of hda problem however. The theory behind
these cards is that they trick the machine into seeing it as a scsi
device. In my case it appeared as hda.
On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 01:53 PM, Nathan A. Zobrist wrote:
> I have an 8600 with a Tempo ATA100 card and a Maxtor 60G drive
> attached. I
> don't have any problems using the Maxtor under OS 9 or X, but I want to
> change over to YDL as the primary OS on this machine. From what I have
> found in the archives, this should be supported with kernel 2.4.4 and
> up,
> but the drive does not show up as an option when partitioning, and
> when I
> try to set mount points, I get an error relating to drive sdb
> (shouldn't the
> drive show up as hda?) I don't have any problems with sda (the internal
> SCSI drive that came with the machine). I want to set my /home on this
> drive.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am a complete newbie,
> so
> please try to be detailed in any suggestions. :) Also, I only get
> digest so
> please reply to me directly.
>
> Thanks,
> Nate
>
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