IIO recently responded to a firewire query here with a bit of a gem* that very-well describes a great deal of what often gets dealt with around here. (*Sublime and elegant in its’ simplicity.)
Especially considering the oft-heard lament, when dealing with oddball problems that crop up:
“It’s a Mac - it’s not supposed to be difficult”. (Until it is.)
I now propose, submit & respectfully offer -
“The IIO Principle”… or the acronym
EMILF (which has nothing to do with Electronic Mothers or sexual congress, per-se).
Of course, you may twist all that around as much as you like. ![Wink ;)](http://macos9lives.com/smforum/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
EMILF “…Exceptions, Mysterious Issues and Lucky Finds”. - IIO
Many of you know all-too-well, exactly what this refers to...
When some-
thing:
(1). Is supposed to work - but doesn’t.(2). Isn’t supposed to work - but does.Well… I think it’s much better than LUYB (Look Under Your Bed).
An EMILF Example (type #2):Finally. Completely reassembled the first 867 DP MDD here with a transplanted 1.42 GHz DP CPU and placed two SATA drives inside. One, a Samsung conventional spinner and the other, an Inland SSD. And rather than using the accepted & prescribed
MDD approach of IDE/SATA adapters capable of Cable Select jumper settings… I used two Bribges instead. One set as Master and the other as Slave (with it’s jumper removed). The Samsung had Tiger installed and the Inland had OS 9.2 AND Tiger partitions. Option-booted it and all three appeared as available.
Both available Tiger installs were bootable - the OS 9.2 partition was not.
[Flashing question mark, floppy icon.] Even though OS 9 appeared in the boot manager.
EMILF!But when I swapped the drives around on the ribbon cable (the Inland SSD with OS 9 - now in the Master position) it then booted into that OS 9.2.
(Not bad ehh? And not even a speck of profanity.)![](http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=9ffa91b6753cab3506bd21b4cb5763ae&action=dlattach;topic=6331.0;attach=10090;image)
Anything to avoid the overpriced StarTech, Addonics, (etc.) Marvell-chipped adapters! Even if Marvell is an American based (yet fabless) company. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/03/semiconductor-chip-shortage-could-extend-through-2022-marvell-ceo.html
Have another example of
EMILF that perhaps you’d care to share?
Perhaps next week, we can cover the concept of frenemy?Happy Monday y’all!
![Wink ;)](http://macos9lives.com/smforum/Smileys/default/wink.gif)