B&W G3/450/built-in SCSI

I installed 10.3 on the original SCSI drives of two B&W towers. The install went smoothly, but on startup I now get the grey forbidden (circle w/slash) symbol. The firmware seems to be v1.1; I downloaded the v1.2 file and tried to install under 9.2.2, but the installer reported no device available to update. What do I need to do here to get this disk to run?
Also: I attached an 80GB ATA drive to one of these and installed 10.3.9; neither machine will recognize it as a startup disk, even with the PCI SCSI card removed. I'd like to swap out the 4 GB SCSI drive in one machine for this. Suggestions?

Sure, you can put that processor in a Beige. But it will run at the speed of your old processor until you change the speed jumpers on the board (and moving the jumper block from the Blue & White will not help, the pin assignments are different. check xlr8yourmac for jumper settings. I must warn you -- removing the sticker over them will VOID YOUR WARRANTY!
It has a larger Heatsink because it needs more heat dissipation. You will need to provide more heat dissipation by some method. There is not a lot of extra headroom in the desktop chassis, a bit more in the MiniTower, and Tons in the All-in-One.
Any memory issues from switching system bus?
Yes. the stock RAM memories from the beige are rated PC-66 (for a 66 MHz Bus). Speeding them up puts them out of spec. If they fail running faster, no one will be surprised. The RAM from the Blue & White is identical in every regard, except it is rated PC-100, so it can be run faster without penalty.
The Grackle memory controller is rated for 66 MHz, but your particular chip may run a little faster, or may not. It depends on your particular chip.
Most PCI cards get a little weird if you try to run them faster than the standard speed.

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Will G4 Dual 450 run Panther?

Panther needs 867. I figure Dual 450=900, But am I right? I have plenty of memory and spare hard drive space.
I am running 10.3.9 and would like to upgrade if I can.
Thanks.

Ummm...
10.3 = Panther. Panther will work on G3s and G4s with built-in USB and no built-in SCSI (PCI SCSI cards don't count). Your G4/450 should work. Exceptions on G4s are ones released with 10.4 or newer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25517
10.4 = Tiger. Tiger will work on G3s with built-in Firewire. All G4s have built-in Firewire, so they work with Tiger.
10.5 = Leopard. Leopard is the one with the 867 Mhz G4 requirement.
Are you thinking about getting Panther for your G4 or Leopard?
Cause if it is Leopard, no it won't work on your G4.

Stumped!!! How do I install OS9 on a G4 QS 2002 with SCSI???

OK, this has got me beat! and I've been working with all manner of macs for 20 years! My experience of post-ADB, post-Serial Port, post-SCSI II, 'modern' macs of the 21st century is limited to powerbooks though [blush]
So, here's the quandary; In an earlier post I described how I'd purchased a G4 Dual 1Ghz Quicksilver 2002 with a Build-to-Order Apple SCSI option in order to run my Digidesign pro Tools gear in MacOS 9.2.2. Well, the boot drive is a 72GB Seagate Cheater attached to the factory installed UL3D ATTO card. I've installed OS X 10.4.4 successfully, but try as I might I cannot for the life of me figure out how I'm supposed to install OS9. When I insert the install CD and click on the installer it wants to load Classic, but doesn't find it! Duh! So no problem I think, I set the CD as my start-up volume and restart. This time I'm greeted by the OS9 desktop, but no bootup drive to install OS9 onto! Drive Setup can see the device, but says it cannot be mounted. Does is require ATTO drivers? That's crazy, I thought OS9 was built on SCSI. I can't find ATTO drivers online, or figure how I would install them before installing an OS.
So next problem, I restart and hold down Option, but the USB Apple keyboard doesn't seem to like key combinations because about 20 times in a row I keep rebooting back to the CD drive. My old ADB keyboard was never this unresponsive. Furthermore, how on earth do you force the CD to eject of these button-less towers? I finally managed it by holding the mouse down, but that only works in certain circumstances.
OK, so I figure I need to drag and drop an entire OS9 System Folder from my other G4 QS via an external drive over USB. That was successful, and now Startup Disk in the system sees an OS9 startup option as well as an OSX on the SCSI boot drive. so I figure I'm in business and select OS9 and restart. Now I'm in a whole world of pain! I'm greeted with the flashing '?' icon at boot up because clearly it cannot find the system. Well, you'd think that after a while it would just give up and start from OSX which is obviously sitting there waiting. Well NO! It just flashes forever. No amount of reboots will get it off this. I tried all sort of key combinations, but they don't seem to work, until cmd-x seemed to do it. However a couple of hours were wasted. It's also annoying not having a good old-fashioned restart button on my keyboard.
So anyway, how did Apple expect me to install OS 9 on this if their own installer CD doesn't even see their factory installed boot drive?

Well, I can confirm that that worked, however it was not as intuitive as it should have been, and can easily be overlooked.
Basically when you install Tiger and click on the Options box it allows you perform a 'Clean Install', and 'Erase Disk' etc where you are given only one option for formatting: Unix or HFS+ Journaling. At no point does it present you with an option to install OS9 drivers, and neither does it install them by default!
In order to install the OS9 compatibility you have to dismiss the OSX 10.4 installer script and open Disk Utility from the Utilities menu where you can perform the exact same task, but this time with an additional check box to install OS9 drivers! And irony or ironies, this time it's pre-selected by default! Talk about convoluted and counter-intuitive...
Anyway, thanks for the help Tom. That saved me another couple of nights

Adaptec USB xchange SCSI to USB adapter

Good morning.
Has anybody had success using this with a Mac OS (any flavor)?
It seems like it would be a handy tool for folks still using classic.
Thanks for your time.

No PowerMac G4 with G4 built-in by Apple has built-in SCSI access. (a few people have some upgrade CPUs whose firmware may still support 9 booting,
inside the PowerMac G3 beige).
PowerMac G3 beige was the newest G3 with built-in SCSI access. It supports up to Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS X 10.2.8.
PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Ghz with no Firewire 800, but with built-in Firewire 400 supports Mac OS 9.2.2 booting, and can take either Firewire SCSI from now defunct OrangeMicro and Ratoc, PCI SCSI from ATO that support in some cases up to Mac OS X 10.4.11, or USB SCSI adapters. Its maximum OS is Mac OS X 10.5.8, though under 10.5 and above, can't use Classic, but can still boot 9.2.2. It does require a 9.2 installer disc that came prebundled with it to install 9.2.
Powerbook G4 pre-2003 1 Ghz models with rear mounted USB and Firewire ports are very similar to the PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Ghz in their support, except you'd be looking at PCMCIA cards to try to accomplish what the PCI cards could do.
Powerbook G3 Bronze a.k.a. Lombard are the last with built-in 29 and 30 pin (for SCSI Disk Mode you need the 30 pin adapter) SCSI. These could boot up to 10.3.9 if their CPU wasn't misdesigned (a few were), and they came also with built-in USB, unlike the PowerMac G3 Beige.

KT7 Master 6347-S SCSI Device Drivers?

I just purchased a MSI KT7 Master 6347 from an online dealer and when I got ready to installed the device drivers from the MSI CD found that the CD was 'Sealed[Melted?]' to the plastic storage sleeve.
I have been able to find most of the drivers for this board online [but other than the BIOS upgrade had to go off site for the drives {why is that MSI?}]..
But I am unsure of which SCSI drivers that I need for Win'98SE??
Can not tell which drivers I need for this board online?
--David

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Originally posted by wonkanoby
what are these drivers for?
KT7 Master 6347-S SCSI Device Drivers?
This mainboard has built-in SCSI interface and while I currently do not have anything connected to it I am getting the "YELLOW" ''!'' :] in Windows which might be causing some of my other troubles that I am having??
*> Side Note I don't understand why MSI does not have all the needed device drivers for their mainboards posted and/or linked to on their web sites??

Lombard + OS X = SCSI supported?

Does anybody know, whether the Lombard (M5343) supports external SCSI devices with OS X 10.2.8? Is it possible to boot OS X from any SCSI device (e.g. harddrive and/or DVD)?
I never asked this before and found nothing on the Apple support site. Currently running "jaguar" (10.2.8) and don't see SCSI from system profiler (of course, no device connected).

Thilo,
Generally devices like SCSI HDs, Zip drives, CD-RWs, and scanners will work, but I do not know the success rate of booting to the HD or burner with built-in SCSI. You might want to head over to the Power Mac Discussions where SCSI is an on-going topic involving mostly SCSI PCI cards but they may also be helpful with the older/slower SCSI. I realize the only way to boot the Lombard from another volume is via a SCSI device or possibly a media bay HD, but my advice would be to avoid SCSI if possible. Use FireWire and USB 2.0 PC cards if possible for read/write requirements

Performa 200

I have a Mac Performa 200/Classic II which recently started displaying the Quizzical Floppy. I read in a book called Sad Macs, Bombs & Other Disasters and What to do About Them that I need to use SCSIProbe to have the Mac search for my 250 MB SCSI hard drive. I've already tried zapping the PRAM & booting up from a Mac OS 7.6.1 CD-ROM via an external SCSI CD-ROM drive set to SCSI ID 3.
Can I modify a NAD 7.5 floppy to hold SCSIProbe along with HD SC Setup (it already has a hacked HD SC Setup on it)? Or would I be better of modifying a System 7.0.1 boot disk & using that instead?

I figured out what the issue is: it turned out to be a SCSI issue in the end. I previously had attached a external Apple 12X SCSI CD-ROM drive to the Performa 200's SCSI port. I built the external Apple 12X SCSI CD-ROM drive myself too by installing a Apple 12X SCSI CD-ROM drive into a 5.25 external SCSI drive enclosure I bought for this express purpose.
It turned out to be cheaper to build my own external Apple 12X SCSI CD-ROM drive than it would have been to try & win a genuine Apple built external Apple SCSI CD-ROM drive. When I tried a genuine Apple built external SCSI CD-ROM drive the Mac booted off of its internal SCSI hard drive just fine. I found out about the SCSI issues by searching Apple's Knowledge Base & that's how I found the Apple troubleshooting FAQ KB Article.
I was also previously getting a Sad Mac error code of:
0000000F
00000001 which according to the Apple Knowledge Base Article about Sad Macs indicates a Illegal Instruction was occurring. Specifically the exact error code indicated a Bus Error which is supposedly an indication of a random software error occurring. The other Knowledge Base Article I previously mentioned though said it was a SCSI issue rather than a software issue so go figure. In the end I figured out the Performa 200's SCSI controller must be too old to work properly with such a new model of Apple SCSI CD-ROM drive.
The hard drive currently installed in the Performa 200 is also not the factory hard drive. I've upgraded to a Apple Logod 250 MB SCSI hard drive to avoid running out of hard disk space. Thankfully 250 MBs is enough hard drive space for such an ancient B/W Compact Mac.

Is installing PCI Ultrascsi in a Netra T1 105 plug and play?

The very small manual I have that came with the Sun PCI Ultrascsi host adapter implies that I can install the card in my Netra T1 and run probe-scsi-all to see the card and any devices installed but I am finding that is not the case. Am I missing an openboot config step or do I have a defective card?
The scsi devices cabled to the card work fine on the built in scsi bus.

Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.10.24 ME, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #11725189.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:b2:e9:85, Host ID: 80b2e985.
ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@f,1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/scsi@f
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST318203LSUN18G 034A
Target 1
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST318203LSUN18G 034A
ok

PCMCIA card firewire work on old laptop?

Hey!
I am trying to find a CD burner for my old WallStreet G3 233. I was wondering: if I were to buy a firewire PCMCIA card, would that (somehow) operate at the same speed as the SCSI port on the back of my machine?
See, I doubt it will because I already have a 2 port USB 2 card but it will only deliver USB 1 speeds (even though it's USB 2).
It will be hellish to find one of those old square SCSI adapters... unless I can actually find one that is either true USB2 or firewire. If I can, I will be the happiest guy on earth! Anyone know of any fixes for these problems?

Hi, Shane. A Wallstreet running OS 9.x can use a FireWire 400 PC card adapter. It should transmit data faster than your built-in SCSI port does, and it will certainly be faster than USB 1.1 (which is all you'll get on the Wallstreet, unless you upgrade to OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.4 or higher to gain USB 2 support). So a FireWire CD burner is a possibility for you. But be aware that there were some very good SCSI CD burners made a few years ago, especially by Yamaha, and they occasionally appear on Ebay at very reasonable prices. I still have and occasionally use my old 4x4x16x Yamaha SCSI CD-RW, which I got when it was brand new and the fastest burner money could buy for a Mac (!!). I also have the two different (and very expensive — about $50 each new) HDI-30 SCSI adapter cables for the Wallstreet: one for connecting peripherals, the other for using my PB in SCSI Disk Mode, which I used to do to back up its hard drive.
FireWire 400 (but not FW 800) is fully supported in OS 9, unlike USB 2. Here is one inexpensive FW 400 adapter card, though there are many others to choose from. One caution: it would probably be advisable to stay away from the combination FW and USB cards. They seem to be troublesome more often, especially in OS 9, than one-trick-pony cards.

Basic Partitioning ? (For Tiger Install)

A reading of some of the tech forums at the ExPostFacto site strongly suggest partitioning as a preparation for installing Tiger. My only experience with partitioning is with FWB Hard Disk Toolkit, running under system 9.1 (as yet I have no experinece with System X). This may be a very basic question, but, if I use FWD HDK to partition a drive under System 9.1, will System X (after it is later installed) correctly recognize the partitions created while in System 9?
As I recall FWB HDK requires that it install its own driver on a hard disk before partitioning can be done. Is this any problem on a new firewire drive for later use for installation of Tiger?
I also have Silverlining Pro 6.4.3 which came with my newest hard drive that could be used for partitioning. Is there any advantage of this over FWB HDK? (I have experience using FWB HDK under System 9, so would prefer this other things being equal.)
Thanks for your comments.
G3 Beige mini tower Mac OS 9.1.x Sonnet G4 800MHz upgrade; 640 MB RAM

I have been using the two internal SCSI drives for years, and have mirroring enabled via the FWB HDTK.
I do not know whether FWB RAID Toolkit mirrors can survive the transition to Mac OS X. I have version 4.5, but have never tried it. It is not mentioned as a useful formatter on the XPostFacto site, but I do not recall it being precluded, either. Maybe you should try it and see if it works.
If the source drive (for system 9.1 and EPF) must have been formatted with Mac utilites (as you put it) then I guess I will have to buy a new external SCSI drive to hold the resident System 9.1 and ExPostFacto.
You have said that your Wide SCSI drives cannot be reformatted for use with X because they have been formatted with FWB Tools. I wanted to be sure you understand they can be. Mac OS X also contains built-in RAID software, but it has a quirk -- the drives are not supported and do not mount under Mac OS 9.
If you have the standard SCSI "Server" set-up with The Apple/ATTO PCI PSC card and the long internal cable, you are limited to the approx. three feet of high-speed cable provided inside the cabinet, and that external high-speed devices are precluded, because it would make the cable too long for reliable operation. But your Tower has space and cabling for three high-speed SCSI drives, if you count the standard "roof-mount" bracket over the power supply. You could also remove the CD drive or Floppy to gain drive space, or use the slower built-in narrow SCSI bus, internal and/or external.
As to installing the EPF helper files/disk, I am a little unclear on this. However, if I obtain a new external SCSI drive, I assume it will be bootable on the G3 internal SCSI chain and thus helper files will not be necessary? I though helper files/disk were only necessary to allow booting from a firewire drive?
XPostFacto performs two different tricks that use a number of files, the most obvious of which is named BootX, and a number of old and new extensions to support older hardware and normally-unsupported drives. I have sloppily referred to both scenarios as using "Helper Files".
A) To boot an unsupported Mac, BootX and the old extensions are first installed onto a Hard Drive, then the standard Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 files are added to it to produce an old-Mac bootable System.
B) To boot a drive that has no ROM support (and would therefore be unbootable because its driver is out on the drive, and cannot be booted until the driver is loaded) a "Helper Drive" is used. This is accomplished using a supported hard drive that has extensions, BootX, and the driver for the "unsupported" device loaded onto it, but it may not have a full System. You boot to a tiny System that contains the driver needed to boot the real System from the "unsupported" device.
If you are going to use 10.3 or 10.4, it may not be necessary to have more than one partition for Mac OS 9 and Classic. It may not even be necessary to have a separate partition for Mac OS 9, since hard Disk journalling has greatly reduced the instances of Mac OS 9 and X stepping on each other.
Mac OS 9 and X can read each other's files, so your Mac OS 9 partition (or partitions, as you see fit) can be as small as about 0.8 Gigabytes. If you have an old 1 GB narrow SCSI drive kicking around, you can use that for your Mac OS 9 partition. [ Just get a rock to perform the doorstop function and put the 1 GB SCSI drive back into the Mac ]
I have seen a case under Mac OS 10.3 where the beige G3 insisted on enforcing the <8 GB limit on the built-in SCSI bus, But I am not sure whether that was an isolated incident. I believe Mac OS 10.4 and XPostFacto may have eliminated this restriction.

Epson 836 scanner - G3?

Hi folks. Maybe someone here has had this problem and can tell me how to fix it.
I have just purchased a used Epson 836 XL scanner, that I can't get to work on my G3 500
Now I had a friend bring over his 8600 and it works fine on that computer.
When I try to launch it on the G3, it says it can't find the scanner?
I have downloaded all of the current software from the epson web site.
I switrched the scsi cards and that didn't make any difference. Now I will say I didn't try the other card in the 8600 - because it didn't seem to matter.
I took the scsi card from the 8600 and tried that one on the G3, and it still didn't work?
If you feel you have the answer, please feel free to call me toll free: 800.636.0457
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Hi, Karl. The only "G3 500" computers Apple produced were the final and fastest Powerbook G3 and an iMac model or two, none of which have SCSI ports or cards or places to put one. So I presume you have one of the desktop G3 models with a processor upgrade in it. Would you please identify the model precisely for us?
The 836XL was originally shipped with a PCI SCSI adapter card, mainly for use in Windows PCs, since most Macs of that era had built-in SCSI. Are you using the shipped-with SCSI card, or a card that was original to your Mac?
Do you have any other SCSI devices? If so, do they connect to your Mac's SCSI port and work OK? Have you tried the scanner without any other devices on the SCSI chain? I presume from the fact that you got the scanner working on your friend's 8600 that you are aware of proper termination and power on-off sequences with SCSI devices, but back in my SCSI days I learned the hard way that for every rule about SCSI, there are a few inexplicable exceptions (thus the term "SCSI voodoo"). I had a scanner that had to be terminated when it was connected to one Mac and wouldn't work at all if it was terminated when connected to a different Mac using the same cable, even when it was the only SCSI device connected to either computer.
Post back with info about your Mac model (how does System Profiler identify it, BTW?) and perhaps we'll be able to help you.

Hardware + OS compaibility?

i know these forums generally frown on speculation; however i am hoping to get some idea of apples history of os + hardware compatibility in such a way as to inform without necessarily speculating. I currently run a mac pro 1,1 summer 2007. At some point in the future i will be buying a laptop. I had been intending on getting a previous gen macbook pro seconhand as firewire 400 and matt screen is very important to my work. However i am aware that a new os (snow leopard) is due to come out and it would be a significant consideration also. Historically how have previous generations of hardware been treated by Apple with regard to new OS's? Do people view changes in hardware (overall but particularly macpro) over the last year or so as significant enough that these are qualitatively different machines that would allow a radically different os (at say the kernal level or similar) that would not necessarily back compatible - or are these mainly quantative (faster, bigger, more powerful)? Basically at a hardware level how significantly different is the new macpro to the older one? thanks in advance
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History is not ever an indication of future support. See my user tip on new equipment:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1502615&tstart=0
A couple of the machines that broke the trend were the so-called Lombard Powerbooks (Powerbook G3 333 Mhz and 400 Mhz with built-in USB, and built-in SCSI), Powerbook Kanga and the Mac Mini PowerPC. Lombard Powerbooks that had a certain CPU couldn't be upgrade to Mac OS X unless the RAM was installed in a certain slot. Furthermore, their DVD drive failed to operate on Mac OS X.
Powerbook G3/300 Mhz actually did run in Mac OS X.
Powerbook G3/250 Kanga would not run Mac OS X.
Powerbook G3/233 Mhz would run Mac OS X.
The Mac Mini PowerPC came with some cases 256 MB of RAM, and some cases 512 MB of RAM build to order. Even though they make the 867 Mhz cut, they don't make the 512 MB of RAM cut for Leopard. And they were not user installable RAM either. Numerous older G4s made the cut for installing Leopard, including the iMac G4 1 Ghz which did have user installable RAM to make it possible to run Leopard.
So regardless of the machine you get, you can't guarantee yourself future compatibility across the board. Get what you need today, and upgrade when you need to. There is an extensive used and refurbished market, if you find what you have doesn't meet your current needs.
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External USB DVD Burner Compatability

I have an ASUS SDRW-08D1S-U that will not work with wodim but does work with cdrdao. Since every GUI uses wodim, this drive is just a pain to use in Linux. Although I think the drive may just be defective because it powers off sometimes for no apparent reason (ruined a few discs like that.)
Anyway, I'm looking for a new drive but I'm having a hard time finding if any given drive works in Linux or not. I was looking at the LG GP08LU30, can anyone confirm if this drive works with wodim or have any other suggestions?

Well you can't exactly run XP on a 300 Mhz Pentium either.
The Lombard dates dates back from the days of the 300 Mhz Pentium. And 10.4.9 running on a Lombard is actually already out of the range of the possible. Read the specs on
http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
The fact you are running it at all on that machine, is a testament to the brilliance of people who wrote XPostFacto at http://www.macsales.com/
The Lombard does not have built-in Firewire, and therefore can't take advantage of many of the features of 10.4 through 10.4.9. The Lombard was sort of the last of a generation of Macs that came with built-in SCSI, but no built-in Firewire. As Apple went through their transition from 1997 to 2003 to getting all the Macs to most of the hardware features found in today's Macs that support Mac OS X there were several low to midrange models that didn't fit all the categories you find in today's Macs.
The only third party player which may work, and not on all drives is http://www.videolan.org/ 's VLC Client.
Macs are integrated units. Thus while you can upgrade the RAM, and frequently the wireless card, or hard drive, many of the other addons except on the PowerMac/Mac Pro/MacBook Pro/Powerbook lines are not available because most of the features one would need are already included. The iBook and MacBook have no Express/34 slot. The 12" Powerbooks strangely didn't have PCMCIA, but did have DVI and extended desktop capabilities starting with its DVI model.
It pays to take a close look at specs to find out if your model has support for the feature you want:
http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.html
Part of the reason for the Mac's stability is that the variables are more known than in the PC world because the specs are so well written.

SunFire V120 with A1000

OK, we've got a SunFire V120 server with an X6541A PCI SCSI card installed. The card is connected to an A1000 RAID Array with a good quality HVD SCSI cable. The other port on the A1000 has a HVD terminator installed. There are eight 73GB drives in the array, and there are two internal drives running on the server's built-in SCSI. Running Solaris 8 on the server.
So far, I have not been able to get the server to recognize the array at all. If I run a "probe-scsi-all" I get this:

ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@5,1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@5
Fatal SCSI error at script address 10 Unexpected disconnect
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8,1
/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk FUJITSU MAP3367N SUN36G 0301
Target 1
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 0326
As you can see, it recognizes the internal drives on SCSI address 8 and the X6541 card at SCSI address 5, but reports an error on the port attached to the A1000.
I also get the following email to root occasionally:
To: root
Subject: raid Event
Content-Length: 183
An array event has been detected on Controller Unknown
Device Unknown at Host <<our domain name here>> - Time 08/23/2005 21:14:27
And I get errors on boot up:
Sun Fire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 4.0, 1536 MB memory installed, Serial #53835884.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:35:78:6c, Host ID: 8335786c.
last command: boot
Boot device: disk File and args:
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-17 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@5 (glm2):
unexpected SCSI interrupt while idle
configuring IPv4 interfaces: eri0.
Hostname: <<our domain name here>>
The system is coming up. Please wait.
checking ufs filesystems
/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6: is stable.
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7: 52762 files, 11375733 used, 10986210 free
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7: (39522 frags, 1368336 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4: is stable.
8/24/2005 1:14:21 GMT LOM time reference
starting rpc services: rpcbind done.
Setting netmask of eri0 to 255.255.255.240
Setting default IPv4 interface for multicast: add net 224.0/4: gateway <<our domain name here>>
syslog service starting.
Print services started.
There are no devices (controllers) in the system; nvutil terminated.
There are no devices (controllers) in the system.
fwutil failed!
Array Monitor initiated
Aug 23 21:14:27 /usr/lib/osa/bin/arraymon: No RAID devices found to check.
RDAC daemons initiated
volume management starting.
Wnn6: Key License Server started....
Nihongo Multi Client Server (Wnn6 R2.34)
Finished Reading Files
httpd starting.
Starting nrpe: Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data started
The system is ready.
The first SCSI error you see in the boot sequence:
WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@5 (glm2):
unexpected SCSI interrupt while idle
is sometimes replaced with:
WARNING: invalid vector intr: number 0x7df, pil 0x0
Any ideas at all? Is it the A1000, it's RAID controller, the X6541A, PROM settings? Anything???
Thanks!
- Matt

If it doesn't pass at this level you have zero chance in Solaris.
You're probably right.
I have tried swapping the ports on both the A1000 and the SCSI card. But I can't recall the exact effects -- problem is, I am in New Hampshire and the Server is in New York. "Hands-on" debugging is a bit difficult.
I do have auto-boot set to false, so no problem running the SCSI probe. I will probably have to do one more trip down there it looks like. Your suggestion of trying the SCSI probe with the A1000 disconnected is a good one - at least that will isolate to the A1000 or the SCSI card.
I have a hunch there is a hardware problem on the RAID contoller card in the A1000, but no proof yet.
Installed 300 or so patches last night. 50 or so to go. This part needs to get done anyway, even if it doesn't fix the RAID array!

Javascript error preventing software install

I'm a Pro Tools user and I'm getting a Javascript error when I attempt to install an update for an AVID/Digidesign virtual instrument plugin called Transfuser. I downloaded the software directly to my Mac Pro got the error so I ran software updater and it brought the machine right up to date including Java but I'm still getting this:
"There was an error while evaluating Javascript for the package"
So AVID support asked me if I updated Javascript but I can't find a proper download link for it. I did an internet search for this error and found that it's quite common but nothing that helps me directly. I understand that Java and Javascript are not the same thing but AVID support mentioned that updating Java on my Mac would probably update both....though this is not clear. How can I fix this issue? I've never encountered it before and could use some help. You can see the DUC support thread I've got going here: http://duc.digidesign.com/showthread.php?t=278422
I tried an experiment: Booting into my cloned drive and installing and it worked. But still no way to install from there onto another volume....and I can't use Time machine because I've had it turned off since I've been using Carbon Copy Cloner. Time Machine has known issues with Pro Tools.
Seems to me it has something to do with the HD??? Any help on the matter would be most welcome.

I don't see why you can't restore.
Ideal is to do a walk-thru and test what a restore is and does and such - when you have time and things are working.
When I restore, I format and then restore. Or you can erase.
with enough drives, there is almost no need unless there may be structural errors, or you want to move the system to a new larger or faster drive.
HELP menu in programs like Disk Utility plus it is quite easy
I am not audio or protools, more system maintenance type, and I have no idea why or what is different. But I do know that if I have a system that works, I would make a copy (clone) of it and keep it safe (and off line).
Having spare drives handy is a must, along with SuperDuper and Disk Warrior.
Clone with SuperDuper doesn't copy temp files, log and caches, which is great, those can be problematic and just take up space, and are best recreated fresh.
I would never say a drive is working 100% okay without also using Disk Warrior, maybe even TechTool Pro 5.
Just DO NOT rely on only Apple First Aid to tell you or keep a drive in tip top shape and working order - it doesn't and won't.
A newly formatted drive insures a number of things. You can also write zeros over the drive. A drive used by 10.6.3+ really should be formatted by Snow Leopard, especially system drives. Yes you can just install over Leopard and update, but it really isn't the same.
I buy a lot of drives, but I trust all 4 systems I have to WD VelociRaptors for the most part, built like SCSI drives use to with good low seeks and latency, and run cold but fast.
Also nice to have 4 systems so one can be used for testing or something or a job that takes a lot of time and leave me free.
I'd take your problem system, use SuperDuper (free for full clone, inexpensive $29 for "Smart Update" feature) and clone it to a newly initialized drive; plus run Disk Warrior 4.2 against it first. Then run from that.
I've had three WD drives out of 30 fail, all WD Caviar, two were "Black" series, one was repaired and works fine now thanks to WD's Windows utility. But I won't use Caviar drives except for storage and triple backups now.
I was worried that going back and forth with different versions of AVID apps might handle data files differently, like how Microsoft changes Excel/Word .docx files.
About CCC and other issues:
http://macperformanceguide.com
How to clone with CCC
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
Even for non-RAID (but definitely for use with RAID) nothing beats SoftRAID for reliable and easy to setup partitions.
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-DiglloydHardware.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-SoftRAID.html

B&W G3/450/built-in SCSI

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