Os9 not recognize 2nd Hard drive

Hi there,
I work under OS9 and put a second Hard dive in it
On startup I dont see it in the main screen,
Can anyone tell me whats wrong or can tell me how OS9 will recognize the hard drive,
I formatted it as OS9 extended
regards
John

Hi, Musicman40 -
Try connecting the Master drive to the end connector of the ATA cable, and the Slave drive to the middle connector of that cable. Although this should not be necessary, it sometimes works better.
Isn'there a way to copy the systemfile of os9 to the other Hd on startup??
There is no system file as such (there is a file named System, but by itself it is not usable for anything); perhaps you mean the System Folder? OS 9's System Folder can be copied to another volume via drag-and-drop and still retain its functionality.
I don't know of a way to cause that copying to occur automatically at startup. In all probability doing that to a drive which is not visible to OS 9 won't change anything - it will still be not visible.
There is a restriction applicable to your model for drives 8GB or larger, as described in this Apple KBase article -
Article #25249 - Gray or White Screen After Hard Drive Upgrade
That restriction applies to using such a drive as a boot volume; in order to do so, it must be partitioned such that the first partition is slightly less than 8GB, and all OS's for that drive then placed in that partition.
Although that restriction should apply only when using the drive as a boot drive, it would not hurt to test your situation by partitioning it to see if that makes a difference. Be sure to install OS 9 drivers.

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