G3 mini tower beige

[Mickdl]

I have a G3 with OS 9.2.2 & 10.2.8 on it and the System Profiler shows there is a SCSI hard drive on both OS but I don't have a SCSI hard drive!
And it boots into that almost every time.

Mick

[Mat]

Hey Mick,

if you have your harddrive attached over any PCI card, be it SATA or IDE, the communication is nevertheless realized via the Mac OS' internal SCSI system. That is why your system recognizes all those harddiscs as "SCSI".

[Mickdl]

None of the hard drives is named that way. Its a hard drive I don't recognize!

[Mickdl]

It is listed as a separate Hard Drive in Disk Utility. It is listed as a third Hard Drive. I only have 2. It shows up on my desktop and I can restart into it. Where is it coming from?

[FdB]

Okay, I’ll bite.

If the drives in your G3 Mini Tower are not SCSI drives, what type of drives are they?

(Attach a pic of the 2 drives in-place and maybe even a close-up
of one of those drives’ paper labels.)

Any chance one of those drives is partitioned into at least, 2 separate volumes?

Shift+click (select) all drives mounted on your desktop, then Command+I to get info
on all three and then screenshot that screen with all those info windows open
and post that here.

Then maybe someone here can help you with your mysterious phantom disk.

*Just for fun… (booted with OS 10.2.8 ) open disk utility and screenshot that screen
showing the disks so that we may see the disk(s) hierarchy.

This reminds me of the old Blue & White here that had the “new” initial OS X installed
with OS 9 originally resident. IIRC, that installation of OS X didn’t partition the drive
for two OS’es - but instead installed OS X right on the same drive with OS 9.
An often functional and occasionally freeze-prone nightmare.

[Mickdl]

This is a screen shot of System Profiler that shows the 2 drives I have installed and a third drive I don't. The 1st drive in my bay set to master. The second of course set to slave.
The third is the same type as the master but and shows it's 4.25 GB but doesn't show it as a third partition of the first drive in Disk Utility. Itshowes a third hard drive.

[Mickdl]

How do I take a screen shot in 10.2.8?

[Mickdl]

Never mine, I figured it out!

[FdB]

Figured out how to screenshot or that you actually have three drives?

[Mickdl]

I tried the terminal to change screen shot from .PDF to .JPG and it didn't work. How to change from PDF to JPG?
I tried "defaults write com.apple.screencapture type JPG" is there another command?
Mick

[Mickdl]

I just have 2 Hard Drives!

[Mickdl]

I figured out how to convert the .PDF files To .JPG! Disregard the .PDF files before that uploaded.
These are .JPG.
mick

[Mickdl]

Pics of G3 internal:

[FdB]

You've got a new PM too.

[Mickdl]

FdB Here is the pic:

[IIO]

it is probably a corrupt partition of one of the two drives which actually exist. i have seen similar nonsense before.

[Protools5LEGuy]

Or a drive capped to be less than 40 GBytes acting as 2 drives.

[FdB]

Well there’s two other viable theories noted above.

And… pretty please?

Shift+click (select) all drives mounted on your desktop, then Command+I
to "get info" on all drives and then screenshot that with all those
info windows open and please post that here.

(Example image attached.)
Oh, and a very Merry Christmas to everybody!

[IIO]

fury... you need more HD space!