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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Storage => Topic started by: VinceG3 on May 13, 2020, 05:25:46 PM

Title: Mac OS 9.2.2 on a Lombard G3 with a compact flash to IDE adapter
Post by: VinceG3 on May 13, 2020, 05:25:46 PM

Hello,

I have a Lombard G3, 400Mhz that I attempted to swap out the HDD for a IDE to CF adapter with a 16GB CF card. I was able to initialize the drive and install OS 9 from the DVD drive just fine, but in boot it doesn't recognize the drive. I have selected it as the start up disk.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Title: Re: Mac OS 9.2.2 on a Lombard G3 with a compact flash to IDE adapter
Post by: Nymunariya on May 14, 2020, 04:06:01 AM

I've been meaning to put my msata adapter in my Lombard. Eventually I'll get around to it.

I do know that my clamshell has some trouble booting to the mSATA when the PRAM is reset. It'll flash the questionmark for a while, but eventually it'll calm down and find and read from the mSATA.

Here are some things I would try in order:

• reset the PRAM and see what happens
• boot holding down option to see if the drive is recognised at all.  If so, select it, boot, and chose that drive as the startup drive
• with an OS X cd and a terminal, you can "rebless" the Mac OS 9 folder--I don't know how to do that from OS 9
• check the jumpers on the adapter, and make sure it's on the same setting (slave/master/driveselect) as the previous harddrive
• reformat the drive from OS X making sure that "Install Mac OS 9 drivers" is checked

Title: Re: Mac OS 9.2.2 on a Lombard G3 with a compact flash to IDE adapter
Post by: VinceG3 on May 16, 2020, 09:00:00 AM

Hello, Thanks for the help.

Was able to get it to boot, takes a like a minute before it shows the question mark then loads into OS9.

Chalk it up to age I guess.

Title: Re: Mac OS 9.2.2 on a Lombard G3 with a compact flash to IDE adapter
Post by: rvense on May 16, 2020, 10:25:16 AM

It might depend on the card. I've got my Lombard on a CF card and it boots very quickly.