Hi,
I have a couple questions about a problem I am having:
After a long wait, I managed to track down a Cube G4 power supply, so tried to see what I could do with my 2 G4 Cubes. One boots off its IDE drive, and has both Mac OS 9, and Tiger installed. It has a faulty DVD drive, and a crack in the case right at the DVD slot.
The other is in excellent shape. I am not sure of its history, but it came to me without a HD, has the DVD drive, and some memory installed. I tried the power supply on that Cube (Cube sold to me as "unknown" status), and all things looked promising, so I installed memory, the Startech IDE adapter (jumper set to Master), and tried to install an OS. At first, the Tiger DVD loaded, and I was able to install it on the SSD, but then, it's unable to boot from it. I then tried to get OS9 installed-same thing.
Finally, this morning, took out the SSD, and used that same adapter to use a small (60GB) laptop HD. Works. The Mac OS 9 disc loaded as before, I was able to initialize, and start from the HD.
So, my question is why can I not boot from the SSD? It's a 500GB model, and I used the Mac OS9, and also tried the Mac OSX Tiger boot DVDs to get it started. It will allow me to see the SSD, format it, and install an OS to it, but I cannot get it to startup off the SSD. If I hold "option" with the SSD installed (after loading an OS on it) it will only show the CD/DVD. It won't show the SSD if installed.
I am wondering if this is because of the size limitation with OS9/Tiger on this machine, and that because the drive is "too big" I need to format in a special way, or partition it in a special way. I did try a 120GB partition, but that didn't seem to help.
So, for now, I am using it on Mac OS9 with the 60GB desktop (2.5") HD, but would really like to get both of these Cubes up and running with SSDs.
It may be a simple fix for all of you, but for me? Please help!
Thanks
Chris