So I recently picked up another MDD... it came loaded with 4 drives, one of which has 10.5.6 on it. I put in a SSD-120 OWC drive ('used'... that I acquired somewhere along the way) attached through an IDE adapter.
The adapter looks like it has only 2 jumper settings... jumper on=master... jumper off=slave. I've left the jumper on as I want to use it as my boot drive.
Using Target Disc mode I "ASR'd" a clone of my QS-933 onto the ssd (with OS9.2.2 of coarse
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Here's where the lazy behavior comes in... When I boot it up I get the flashing ? for @ 23 seconds before it decides to fire up with OS9, after which it behaves normally.
Questions:
1) Is the delayed boot due to having OSX on the other drive?
a) Same result using Option key to select boot drive
2) Could the 'used' ssd have something funky goin' on?
3) Adapter... I bought a few of these adapters... they don't have the 2 tall capacitors sticking up but maybe that's the culprit??
4) Drive placement/cable connector... I have the boot ssd in the drive cage closest to the side of MDD case and the secondary drive (with OS X) closest to the motherboard. I believe this puts the ssd on the gray colored connector and the other on the black. I'm sure they are different colored for a reason... Am I using the correct connector/drive placement?
Any other thoughts??
Thanks