Adaptec 2940UW bootable with G4 933 (Quicksliver 2002)

Hello,
I am setting up a second machine in OS 9 native like my blue and white G3 for some legacy applications. I was able to boot from SCSI drives fine in my blue and white G3 with the Adaptec 2940UW and 2940U2W cards. I now have a 10 gig Cheetah SCSI drive in the G4 connected to the 2940UW, and it won't seem to boot. The Cheetah is mounted and I was able to install system sofware, copy files etc., but I can't seem to boot from it. The internal apple drive will boot fine, so I'm wondering if this card is not bootable in the newer machine? Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Jeff

Not sure what your exact issue might be but I know for a fact that some of the later G4 towers had issues with SCSI cards. Specifically Adaptec cards.
If you look around on xlr8yourmac you will find something. I remember it being the Digital Audio and QS that had the issues.

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