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Can't boot with a Seagate Barracuda on an old iMac
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02-04-2005, 01:26 PM
I have a blueberry iMac that runs fine with a western Digital Hard Drive. I wanted to set up another Hard Drive with the MP3 system I use on this machine to have it ready in stock. I bought a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80Gig drive. I can't boot up the iMac from my iMac 9.2.2 install disc with this Drive in place. I can boot up off the disc with the WD drive. So I stuck the Seagate in my Blue and White and formatted it with two partitions, 11Gig and 64Gig about. On the 11 Gig partition I installed OS 9.2.2 from my iMac factory disc. I am able to boot the Blue and White up from the Seagate Drive. When I put the drive in the Blueberry it won't boot and I am unable to boot from the disc. Get this, if I disconnect the Hard Drive then I can boot from the disc. What am I doing wrong here? |
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02-04-2005, 05:18 PM
Is the jumper set right on the drive? It has to be on master. Maybe it's on slave and your CD-ROM is on slave, so they're conflicting. I bet you that's the case. It wont even chime if there are two drives conflicting. |
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02-04-2005, 05:38 PM
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None of that made any difference. I just updated the firmware to 4.1.9. Maybe that's it, but I don't have time to try this minute. Is that the most recent firmware update for an older iMac G3? |
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02-04-2005, 06:13 PM
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I'll have to post this in the Drive Compatibility Database in case it may help someone else. When I searched it before there wasn't any report for my particular situation. FYI the model # of the Seagate Drive is ST380011A Have a great weekend everyone Hey if you like music and want to help the Tsunami Victims check out this link. http://iaa.does.it/ Last edited by TF1; 02-04-2005 at 06:16 PM. |
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