6100 hard disk to use in G4

[harvester]

Dear listmembers,
I have a seagate SCSI harddisk formated in a 6100 which I want to read
alternatively, because the 6100 conection to the screen is defect. I
am trying to put it as a second hard disk in a G4 with OS 9, but it
doesn't recognize it, probably because it was formatted in OS8 or
maybe because of the PCI question. Can someone help me out either in
suggesting a way of reading it on the 6100 with the screen off or
suggesting a way of reading it on the G4?

Harvester

[Dan the listmom]

Harvester,

Do you have a SCSI card in your Power Mac G4? Apple stopped building
SCSI controllers into Macs in 1998.

Dan

[joe]

I'm not sure what your G4 is, but I don't think any G4s came with
SCSI. You'd need a SCSI card for starters.

I'd think it'd be easier to find a working AV card for your 6100.
(Is that what's wrong? Have you tried first reseating the AV card?)

Joe

[Hans vester]

Hi Dan,

Yes I have put an SCSI card into my G4 and this card allows to connect one or two harddrives interaly.
In the meantime I have found out that their should not be a conflict between the systems 8 and 9 so this cannot be the problem. I probably have to check if the harddisk is still ok. I know it turns.

Hans

[Hans vester]

Hi Joe,

How do I reset an AV card?

Hans

[Charles Davis]

On Nov 9, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Hans vester wrote:

>
> Hi Joe,
>
> How do I reset an AV card?
>

That's RE-SEAT, not reset. I.E. Remove & Replace (reseat)

Chuck D.

[joe]

Just remove it and push put it back in again.   (I had a personality card in an old machine that I was sure was bad but turned out fine after reseating it.)

[Charles Lenington]

Did you change the scsi id? It's probably set to 0. You need to set it
to 1,2,4,5,6. (0 is 1st drive, 3 is cdrom if scsi, 7 is card/computer.

chuck-le

[Hans vester]

Thank you Charles,

Yes I did that. I also tryed to use that disk as the start up disk, disconnecting the original hard disk in the G4. It then gives a folder with a question mark, so it does not find a system. When I then put a system disk (OS9) in the CDreader, it recognizes that there is a harddisk but says it cannot read it and asks to initialize, which of course I do not want. Should I put the system disk (OS7) of the 6100 in the CD reader and try it that way?

Harvester

[Charles Lenington]

Hans vester wrote:
> Thank you Charles,
>
> Yes I did that. I also tryed to use that disk as the start up disk, disconnecting the original hard disk in the G4. It then gives a folder with a question mark, so it does not find a system. When I then put a system disk (OS9) in the CDreader, it recognizes that there is a harddisk but says it cannot read it and asks to initialize, which of course I do not want. Should I put the system disk (OS7) of the 6100 in the CD reader and try it that way?
>
> Harvester
>
>

snip.....

I would try booting from a OS 9 cd if the G4 can. If the G4 has OS X
then it (6100 drive) may not have the right driver for X.

chuck-le