SCSI G3 Beige Minitower & 10.2.8 problems

Hello All & I welcome myself to Discussions,
I have a Beige G3 with a 8.50 SCSI HD. I know about the under 8G partition does not apply here because of the SCSI drive. I read somewhere, that OS X does not play well with beige G3's. Any truth to this?
My problem is connecting to the Internet. I've run permissions several times,
reconfigured my network settings, but still no dice. Would resettings the VPRAM help this issue. Are there any other tricks I might try to resolve this problem. I have another computer hooked up to the same Internet connection through a Cisco Ethernet hub and it works fine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
JerBear65

JerBear65,
Start with Mauro's comments about one connection at a time. The router will also make sure that you only get one bill from your ISP and not two. Bill's idea is worth a shot, too. We are asuming certain details so thanks for the updates.
You mentioned "The server "pop.ptld.qwest.net" can not be contacted on port 110." which makes me wonder if your hub is configured to treat the Qwest DSL modem as a peer. If it is, you will be billed for each computer it sees on your LAN. This is where the difference between a Hub, a switch and a router becomes very important. All it takes is one bill for a LAN party with 12 computers connected to the web and you could have purchased a router!
Proceed with your tests and check out some options here:
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/switchvs.hub
and definitions here:
This article is about a computer networking device. For the kind of rotating cutting tool called wood router, see wood router.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router
and interesting Wifi reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wifi
Jim

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Accessing S/N of G3 Beige MiniTower through software.

Is there any software than can fetch me the serial number of my G3 Beige MiniTower?
I've got this Frankenmac (G3 Beige upgraded to G4 trough PowerLogic ZIF chip) booted into native MacOS 9.2.2 and connected to my mini-network through Ethernet. The native MacOS 9.2.2 Apple System Profiler doesn't bring up a serial number, and the Tiger and Leopard System Profilers can't read the G3 hardware.
Just curious—and hoping not to have to disconnect and take apart the G3 Beige MiniTower just for this purpose.
Thanks in advance.
Software overview
    Serial number:    Not applicable
    Mac OS overview
        Finder:    9.2
        System:    9.2.2 US
        Active enabler:    None
        QuickTime:    6.0.3
        CarbonLib:    1.6
        File sharing:    is on
        Multiple Users:    Not installed
    Note: No startup disk was selected.
Memory overview
    Disk cache:    8160K
    Virtual memory:    769 MB
        Used on volume:    FrankenMac_HD9
    Built-in memory:    768 MB
        Location            Size           Memory type
        J3          256 MB   DIMM
        J4          256 MB   DIMM
        J5          256 MB   DIMM
    Video memory:    16 MB
    External L2 cache:    Not installed
Hardware overview
    Machine ID:    510
    Model name:    Power Macintosh G3 series        <<<===
    Keyboard type:    Apple Extended Keyboard
    Attributes:    Audio/Video card
    Processor info:    PowerPC G4        <<<===     <<<===
    Machine speed:    533 MHz
    Nanokernel version: 2.27
    Nanokernel pool extends: 0
    Nanokernel scheduled CPUs:

Thanks a bunch for that info, Allan! I would have never guessed.
That means the S/N in my machine is long gone, as neither one of its two SCSI internal drives shows a S/N. Both HDs appear to be nominal 18 or 20 GB, so neither one is the original.
I was just curious about the manufacture date of the machine, but since that model was only produced for some 14 months, from mid-November 1997 through late December of 1998, it wouldn't make that much of a difference. It has the last ROM version (Rev. 3: $77D.45F2). I bought it second hand in 2002.
Given that it has the PowerLogic 500 G4 ZIF processor, the date of manufacture seems even more academic now.
Thank you again for the authoritative reply.

Batteries for Power Mac G3 Beige Minitower

Where can I get batteries for Power Mac G3 Beige Minitower? I think they're Lithium batteries 3.6V 200W 922-4542.

m i g,
Here is a source for $4.99:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/
Jim
Note to others: (direct quote from above link)
This battery is an exact replacement for the below listed models.
Macintosh II series computers
Macintosh SE FDHD
Macintosh Classic (4-chip and 2-chip)
Macintosh SE/30, IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx, IIsi series computers
Macintosh IIvi, IIvx, Performa 600 series computers
Macintosh LC, LC II, LC III, Performa 400 series computers
Macintosh Quadra 605, LC 475, Performa 475, 477 series computers
Macintosh LC 520, LC 550, Performa 550 series computers
Macintosh Classic II, Color Classic, Performa 200 series computers
Macintosh Centris 610, 650, 660AV series computers
Macintosh Quadra 610, 660AV, 650, 700, 800, 840AV, 900, 950 series computers
Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100 series computers, and Performa 6100 series computers
Power Macintosh 7200, 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500, and 9600 series computers.
Power Macintosh G3 - all models, entire series
iMac - all models, entire series
Power Mac G4 - all models, entire series
Power Mac G5 - all models, entire series

G3 beige minitower doesn't see HDD

I just tried putting a new hard 80GB unformatted drive into a Beige G3 minitower (300Mhz) whose original HDD failed long, long ago. The G3 itself had not been booted in nearly two years.
Everything about the machine seems to be working fine--the floppy drive, the CD drive, etc., but the machine does not see the hard drive. (I'm able to boot the machine using the original system CD.)
Everything is hooked up properly.
Any advice for me out there?
Cheers,
GeeKay

Tina...
Here's how I did it.
1) With the new 80 GB hard drive installed in the Beige G3, I partitioned it to have one 8 GB partition and a second partition taking up the remainder of the space.
2) I then installed OS 9.2 onto the larger partition.
3) I removed the hard drive from the machine and put it into an external Firewire enclosure.
4) I hooked the external enclosure up to a Mac Mini, and installed Tiger from a DVD installation disc (a "generic" Tiger disc that I bought from the Apple Store, not the Mini-specific Tiger DVD that came with that machine) onto the external drive's 8 GB partition.
5) I removed the external drive from the Firewire enclosure, returned the drive to the Beige G3, and then booted into 9.2
6) Using Xpostfacto 4 in 9.2, I used the "install everything" option from the pull-down menu to place the proper boot kernel/extensions/etc onto the OSX partition. I was then able to boot the machine into Tiger. Worked like a charm!
I should note that I originally tried to install OSX (using the same external FW enclosure/Mac Mini method described above) onto a single partition. Xpostfacto indicates that the new version (4) gets around the 8 GB limitation on Old World machines, but I didn't have any success that way. Just couldn't get my Beige to boot at all. That's when I decided to go with the tried and trusted 8 GB partition.
In any case, I'm glad I did it! Performance is deccent, and it's really fun seeing an 8-month old operating system running on an 8-year-old machine!

Yikes G4 400mhz cpu in a Beige G3 AIO L2 cache problems

Ok here is a wered one
i bought a Yikes G4 mobo and G4 400mhz cpu for $40. It shows up today i take out my orignal G3 266mhz cpu and i install the G4 and set all the jumpers to where is is at 400mhz 66mhz bus.
i held the cuda button for 20-30 seconds and powered up. the system seemed a bit slugish booting in to OS X so i waited and it finished booting i look in ASP it shows it as a G4 400mhz but no L2 cache i was like what gives. so i tryed booting into OS 9.2.2 it to was sluggish it got to the desk top where it froze so i did the 3 finger salute and tryed again. it froze on the desktop again in the same spot so i couldent get OS 9.2.2 booted.
i downloaded cpu dorector from powerlogics site or where ever it was and ran it it was showing the L2 cache but i didnt want to mess with any thing so i let it be it showed it as disabled in the cpu director prefrence pain . i dont know why the system dont see the L2 cache on the G4 cpu when it see's it on the G3.
i read that open firmware is the one that handles the L2 cache on startup to allow the system to see it and this is supost to automatcly hapen on boot when you reset the cuda
i dunno what to do i was hoping this cpu would work in this Beige G3 since its not one of the upgrade cpu's it is a cpu out of the yikes G4
is there any way to get the system to see the L2 cache like is does with the G3
i hope i didnt lose any one
Thanks
Frank

im talking about booting in OS 9.2.2. looks like im stuck with the G3 266mhz cpu cause i put it back in not installing anything and it forze as soon as it went to the desktop i tryed cpu director but as soon as the ATI accelorator extention loads it lock's up when i made the CPU director extention load first.
if it loads in normal order it freezes on the cpu director extention. and sonnet wondt load cause its not there cpu. so im lost on this one. this Beige G3 AIO is stuck on stock cpu. well looks like the cpu will have to stay in the Yikes G4 mobo and i just build it up.
i dont know why the L2 cache is disabled for shouldent it work like any other cpu i mean cause almost all cpu's have L2 built on the chip why do i have to use software just to see it.
the only way it will boot into OS 9.2.2 is if i disable the ATI accelarator extention with or with out the cpu director
beige power macintosh G3 ALL-IN-ONE rev b rom, rev 2 logic board, OS X 10.2.8 Mac OS 9.2.x 266mhz, 448mb ram, 6mb vram, 120gig hdd, ATI radion 7000 ME, Pioneer DVR-110D

Beige G3 boot from **** problem; open firmware issues; bad motherboard?

Dear all,
I'm having huge boot/startup problems with my beige G3 that had been happily running OSX 10.3.9, but for purposes of this discussion we can (mostly) revert to OS 9. Originally, the machine was a G3 @300; was upgraded more than a year ago to a ZIF G4 @500.
To make a long story short, it won't boot from any hard drives, will not boot from any OS X CD, and will only occasionally boot from a 9.x startup CD (whether Apple or Norton Utilities). I think it's an open firmware issue, possibly caused by a bad motherboard (rev. 2).
All this started happening after I used techtool pro, but I think that's coincidence (even though I acknowledge that, for cops and computer users, there are no coincidences.) Also, as discussed below, I'm having the same problems with an HD that wasn't even in the computer when all these things began.
Here are some of the things I've done.
--repeatedly reset PRAM, both with key combinations and removing battery. The only time it will boot from a 9.x CD is after resetting PRAM.
--removed all add-on PCI cards.
--removed additional VRAM
--removed all memory cards and tried replacing one at a time.
--disconnected both existing hard drives and replaced with an older OS 9.x hard drive (approx 60 mb) that I'd used before. Also tried different ribbon cables.
--unplugged floppy drive
--disconnected PCI ATA disk controller that I'd been using for running a large (1.8 gb) hard drive.
--regarding open firmware: readenv usually shows totally normal default AND installed settings. Using reset-all works fine -- at least it makes the machine reboot, but doesn't solve the problem. reset-nvram does NOT work -- says it's an "unknown word."
--using startup keys like holding down the option key, or shift key, or X key or cmd-option plus two others I can't remember, has no effect. Again, after I've tried any kind of reboot, the ONLY way to get the C-key at startup to boot the CD is by resetting the pram (key combination). Otherwise, the usual result of these experiments is a dark screen on startup -- nothing at all (and the LCD monitor tells me "no input.")
--regarding OSX: sometimes (and I emphasize sometimes) I can get the machine to start booting from an OSX 10.2 CD, but it won't complete the process. Sometimes I get a "prohibited" (as in no-parking, no-smoking) icon; sometimes it will start booting (grey screen, OS X Apple icon), then crash (horizontal grey and white jagged bars); sometimes it will show the OS 9 start icon (the tiny smiling Mac SE), but not boot at all.
--when I get the mac successfully booted with an OS 9.x CD (again, this works sometimes, but not always), the old hard drive with two partitions does show on the desktop and can be accessed. Using either disk repair or Norton Utilities shows the 9.2 system partition on the hard drive to be fine. But if I go to the startup disk control panel, confidently set the 9.2 partition as my startup disk, then reboot, there's no change. It won't boot and I'm back at square one.
--even when I do get successfully booted with 9.x, the machine will still occasionally crash for no reason -- ie when I'm moving a Window.
--the only thing I haven't done is slowed down the processor. It's a ZIF G4 bought more than a year ago from XLR8 your Mac. I'm running at the default 500 mhz, and it's never given me any trouble.
So I think it's a bad motherboard or ROM. Thoughts?
Thanks.

The beige Mac is now operating happily again. My original tentative diagnosis remains the same (although still tentative): corrupted PRAM from bad battery, compounded by bad cables that wrote corrupted data to hard drives, and also (possibly) allowing Tech Tool Pro (a utility that I now regard with deep suspicion) to create a "virtual" startup partition.
A few things I've learned along the way that hopefully may be useful:
--remember that the Ex Post Facto utility can be used to help OS X startup, not just installation. This applies to hard drives, emergency CDs, installation CDs, etc. If you can boot into any working hard drive partition (OS 9 or a backup OS 10), then run Ex Post Facto (same program runs on either OS 9 or X -- don't ask me how) and tell it what system you want to start up from. Also, the utility has sometimes told me that the startup extensions on the disc that I wanted to boot up from were bad, and offered to fix them (which works).
--at least on my Mac (beige, v. 2 motherboard), resetting the CUDA button, resetting the PRAM, resetting Open Firmware and "draining" the memory by unplugging the computer and disconnecting the battery for several hours ALL DO DIFFERENT THINGS.
Specifically, if I'm having trouble booting (from a hard drive or a CD), the FIRST thing I do is restart and resetting the PRAM on the fly -- holding down command, option, P and R at startup, and waiting for the chimes (preferably at least 3-4 times).
If I do that and DON'T hear the chimes, that's my cue for my SECOND action -- restarting into open firmware (command, option O and F keys on startup). That should bring up the black text on white background open firmware screen. View other posts or apple support for details, but if you do PRINTENV and see a bunch of weird gibberish after the default/installed lists, you know that it was messed up and you need to clear it through reset nvram and reset all commands. Be aware some of these commands do or do not work depending upon what version of Open Firmware you have.
After I've rebooted with Open Firmware, then on restart I should be able to reset the PRAM on the fly. If that works, then either let the machine run and see what happens, or hold down the C command and see if it will boot from the CD
Usually, if I've fixed everything as above, the machine will boot into whatever version of OS 9 it finds on a hard drive. That's fine with me -- at that point, use Ex Post Facto to reboot into your OS X. (Before I forget: I used the shareware startup CD creator program BootCD to make an emergency boot CD based on OS 10.2.8 (which theoretically will support a beige mac in native fashion) and Disk Warrior, the god of disk repair utilities. Even though the CD should boot just by holding down the C key on startup, it doesn't -- but if I use Ex Post Facto to boot it, no problems (although the process is very slow -- be patient). Then I can fix almost anything using Disk Warrior.)
If none of the above works, then I'll try resetting the CUDA (on my beige minitower, it's a very small black button inconveniently located between a PCI slot and the side of the computer housing). Hold it down for 15 seconds. That should REALLY clear the PRAM. I know this does something different from the previous steps because this is the only action (except the battery disconnect -- next) that clears the date and time from the memory.
If all else fails, I will unplug the computer and disconnect the battery, then push the CUDA button for 15 seconds and let the machine sit overnight.
One final finding -- I thought I'd fixed everything, but both my hard drives suddenly quit working, I discovered that during all this repeated connect/disconnect of things, one of the male pins inside one of the connectors on my Acard ATA PCI card had broken off. Not good. Fortunately, the card had a second connector, which works fine. And I did some extensive shaking of the computer to make sure (I hope) that the broken pin hadn't landed on a circuit board.
All this took more than two weeks, and the advice of this board was much appreciated. Now I'm on to my next adventure -- trying to figure out why a combo Firewire/USB PCI card won't mount an external drive on Firewire, but will on USB. I've tried two cards with same result -- but a Firewire-only card works just fine.)
Regards to all,
Graham

3.5 internal floppy disk drive problem

I think I jammed a floppy disk and damaged the connection.
While back, my 3.5 inch floppy disk started jam.
I am thinking replace the disk.
Would you let me know if anyone know what type, what brand, and where can I buy the internal floppy disk.
But my computer turned on with out no problem.
The smiling Mac face shows on the screen but after that nothing happen.
When I insert the original CD, nothing appears on the desktop.
I do not have a problem to restart the computer, using the control + apple + power key, but since there is no other icon, I have to force to shout off; pressing the hardware bottom.
Please someone help me!
Power Mac G3 beige minitower Mac OS 9.2.x 300MH

Hi, mac gart -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
If the internal battery in that machine is old, try replacing it. The Beige/Platinum G3's are known for having boot problems when that battery is too weak or dead.
Once the battery has been replaced, also reset the PRAM -
Article #2238 - How to Reset PRAM and NVRAM
Are you able to boot the machine to an OS 9 Install CD?
Do you not have an OS installed on the internal hard drive? Note that the internal floppy drive and the internal hard drive are not the same thing.

Beige g3 and PCI wireless quest

Hi,
I have an ancient beige minitower G3 266 that I would like to connect to my wireless network via a PCI card- preferably something cheap. I've been searching the net for a while and haven't found anything. I'd appreciate any info from somebody who's done this successfully- thanks-

One of the problems can be the operating system software version. Although PCI card solutions appear to exist (such as this example), a better way may be to use a wireless Ethernet bridge (also known as a gaming adapter) connected to the Ethernet port. Wireless Ethernet bridge devices (e.g., Belkin F5D7330, D-Link DWL-G810, D-Link DWL-G820, Linksys WET54G, Linksys WGA600N and Netgear WGE111) do not require special drivers and can thus be used under almost any operating system. Study the specifications before you buy; some models/variants do not support WPA security (at least not without a firmware update).
Jan

Raid unmounts on G5 maybe 10.4.3 update problem

So here is the background :
my g5 runs off a striped raid which has run flawlessly for 2 Months
A week after installing 10.4.3 I had a lock up on the computer
Restart, no joy
Start using OSx disk: raid offline, disks are irrepairable in disk utitlity
Rebuild raid, erase and zero drive, clone my OS back from a copy
System freezes after reboot
Reboot from firewire disk
Rebuild raid
Try to copy across but raid unmounts and goes offline
start from scratch
zap the pram 10 times (to be sure)
set up raid
install 10.4
copy across docs, tunes etc
restart locks up knackered!
So my question is, how do I re set the damage and install a lovely new copy of osx 10.4?
is it 10.4.3 firmware problems even though I have tried to roll back to 10.4?
Any help would be great, I will never upgrade like this again, very bad apple!

Which is why most don't raid, and if they do, it is mirror and they also keep regular backups. Two months and going belly up is rather common. maybe a bad block isn't being mapped out "on the fly" or occurred in the RAID tables.
Have you zeroed the drive or done a 7-way erase? I would start there.
A RAID can help, but so too can having a fast boot drive for OS/Apps and a separate drive for media. A mirror offers stripped reads but writes to both drives - doesn't protect from file corruption, but does protect from a single drive failure.
I would use SoftRAID 3.3 instead, costs $149. Break the RAID and do a 7-way erase. Check the SMART status (10.4.3 now seems to check status on restarts).
Most desktop drives, including SATA, don't get the testing and burn-in needed. You have to do that yourself - or the attention that SCSI gets. I've had few problems in years with SCSI, but regular problems with desktop drives that have half the MTBF.

SCSI interface.

I am trying to find information on using lab view to communicate with an
interface connected to a SCSI card. Has anyone solved this problem? If
any help can be given I would greatly appreciate it.
Charles Fay
Physics Lab Facilities Manager
Western Kentucky University

Thanks for the reply, Harold.
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it is
a 501-4266
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Ah, yes. A clumsy typo.
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according to http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E4500/spec.html it is
One 20-MB/sec, 68-pin, fast/wide SCSI-2 (synchronous) per I/O board
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Yes, but I have E4000 and E6000 and so I am not sure that the E4500 spec applies (though it probably does in this instance). I think that the E4500 had a later I/O board (the 501-4883).
Do Sun not make data sheets available for each product so that we could know for sure (especially as I have several other similar questions)? I'm trying to learn where to fish rather than asking for someone to throw me a snack ;-)

Freezong after boot-up, Error 10 on 8.6 OS, on beige G3

I was printing a photoshop doc when G3 froze. I did a keyboard restart and now am crashing each time I restart. It appears to boot normally, but a few seconds after desktop appears everything freezes except I still can move my mouse.
I get the bomb icon with the suggestion to start with extensions off. That doesn't produce a different result. Tried booting from two startup CD's, while holding down "C", but it won't boot off a CD. The CD spins but G3 still boots off the HD. Finally had to turn off the power. What can I try next?
Thanks

When a Beige G3 start giving boot problems, the first thing to think is PRAM battery. The Beige PRAM battery affects more than just data and time. When the battery goes, the computer can forget what devices are attached and where the boot partition is located.
Here is a good site for info on Mac batteries:
http://www.academ.com/info/macintosh/
Radio Shack sells the correct battery as part number 23-026 but they are up to around US$15. Batteries are cheaper online; I buy mine here because they charge only US$6.88 and pay shipping even if you buy only one:
Operation Headgap Systems

SCSI to USB on Mac OS8.5?

I have a PowerPC with OS 8.5. I've been using ZIP disks to store audio files from an external hard drive on the PowerPC. I carry the ZIP disks over to a MacMini, and use a newer ZIP drive to upload audio to my client. I bought a SCSI adaptor cable, another adaptor and double female USB connector so as to try to load the audio files directly from the external hard drive on the PowerPC to the flash drive, not using the ZIP disk route (ZIPs are corrupt or the drive is old and tired, so not a dependable medium for transfer any more) but I don't see the flash drive on the desktop.
Is there any way to have my PowerPC recognize the USB drive when I have it connected to the output of the external hard drive connected to the PowerPC?
Jeff

"Is there any way to have my PowerPC recognize the USB drive when I have it connected to the output of the external hard drive connected to the PowerPC?"
That's never going to work — the protocols are too different. It would help if you post back with the model Power Mac that you have, so the availability of PCI slots or onboard USB ports is confirmed. If you have PCI slots, you can install a USB PCI card and then run the USB Adapter Card Support 1.4.1 download. This would enable you to use the same "USB-only" Zip drive on the Power Mac and the Mac mini. This assumes that the problems that you're having with Zip disk transfers are related to the older SCSI-based Zip drive. If the problem is with the Zip disks themselves or that you just want a more direct method of transfer, attempting to use flash drives with the USB Support 1.4.1 files could present a problem. The older USB Adapter Card Support downloads (1.3.5 & 1.4.1) are dated, in terms of their database of supported USB peripherals - like flash drives. Even when running OS 8.6 on some older Power Macs that I had, I found that I needed to update the USB Support driver files with those contained in the OS 9.1 Update, in order for my 1 GB flash drive to be recognized. The OS remained the same - OS 8.6, but the OS 9.1 USB Support files (v. 1.4.6) were fully-compatible with it. I'm not sure if these drivers are compatible with OS 8.5/8.5.1 - I never tested them, but I have my doubts that they'd be recognized. The OS 8.6 download is an update for systems running OS 8.5 or 8.5.1. Keep in mind that any pre-OS X version of the Mac OS will only support USB 1.1 speeds (max 12 Mbps, compared to USB 2.0's potential for data transfers at up to 480 Mbps), regardless of whether you install a USB 2.0 PCI card. Again, post back with the model Power Mac that you have, so the recommendations made here can be helpful and accurate.

Adaptec scsi card 29320A-R

In this neteware 6.5sp5 server, I have above card installed. Bios recognise
this card. But when I load adpu32.ham v.3.01.13 6 Aug 2004. system console
report a error: INVALID OPTION C04020AA 'SLOT' INVALID SLOT NUMBER.
I have another netware 6.5sp5 server using the identical adaptec scsi card.
it does not have problem to recognise this card in slot 1.
The startup file loads the same ADPU320.HAM. The startment in the
startup.ncf file read as follows:
ADPU320.HAM SLOT=1
The only difference between startup.ncf of these 2 servers is:
The one which recognise the card in slot 1 has a statement to load
nwtape.cdm and the one which does not recognise the card in slot 1 and
produce above error has no such statement to load nwtape.cdm
Any idea. What do I miss out?
Wai Chu

> In this neteware 6.5sp5 server, I have above card installed. Bios
recognise
> this card. But when I load adpu32.ham v.3.01.13 6 Aug 2004. system
console
> report a error: INVALID OPTION C04020AA 'SLOT' INVALID SLOT NUMBER.
>
> I have another netware 6.5sp5 server using the identical adaptec scsi
card.
> it does not have problem to recognise this card in slot 1.
>
> The startup file loads the same ADPU320.HAM. The startment in the
> startup.ncf file read as follows:
>
> ADPU320.HAM SLOT=1
>
> The only difference between startup.ncf of these 2 servers is:
> The one which recognise the card in slot 1 has a statement to load
> nwtape.cdm and the one which does not recognise the card in slot 1 and
> produce above error has no such statement to load nwtape.cdm
>
>
> Any idea. What do I miss out?
>
the slot number might be influenced by a different bios configuration in
both servers. this could lead to another slot numbering.
please try to load the driver without as slot number, like:
LOAD <path>ADPU320.HAM
and it will ask for the slot number.

Bus noise on X-fi Extreme music for SCSI user....any solutions yet?

Hi there!
Some time ago i bought my X-fi extreme music card...and i have not been
able to use it properly yet !!!
My problem is: - I use a adaptec 2960N scsi controller in my system, wich i have all
my dri'ves and HD connected to. It use one PCI slot (slot ).
When i play any sound/music with the X-fi card and there is
"additional bus activity" (normally from HD) then the sound "scratch".
Done so far: (with no result)
- Change the card's PCI slot
- Update the latest creative driver
- Update the mainboard bios
- Change the ASPI settings
- Increase the X-fi latency for the PCI card
- Made sure the X-fi dont share IRQ with any other card
- Tested the X-fi card in another computer...and there it works BRILLIANTLY
(nforce 3..no scsi just ide)
System info: Epox Ep -9PDA+ Ultra Nforce 4
AMD X2 dual core 4400+ CPU
024 MB A-data DDR 500 RAM
Maxtor Atlas V Ultra60 SCSI HD
Geforce 7800 GTX
I've read that there are other SCSI users who expirence the same problem
as me on several net forums.
I've also asked Adaptec who have made my controller for a "driver" update,
but they say that the problem is the sound card so its therefore up to
creative to solve it.
I talked with a Creative representati've in Denmark who promised to forward
my problem, but nothing has happened yet?
Hope someone can solve this little "bugger",
Best wishes
PeterMessage Edited by PHH on 2-26-2005 03:59 PM

Hello
I have a Adaptec 39320A-R SCSI Controller with some SCSI dri'ves.
I had ZERO problems with my previous AUDIGY 2 ZS. No noises or cracks or popping , at no time.
Now i have the crackles and pops / noises , when i listen to music and there is some harddri've activity.
I just can avoid it, by switching to audio creation mode, and enable "bit matched playback" in the options there, so it seems, it just is a "simple" software issue, that could be solved.
As soon as i switch to game mode or entertainment mode (regardless of all optimizations are turned on or off) , i get the annoying noises.
I hope there will be a good software update soon.

P6N SLI Won't boot from SCSI card

I have a P6N SLI motherboard with a SCSI card I'm trying to boot from. The BIOS sees the card (as indicated by the BIOS when "Quick Booting" is disabled), however, it doesn't run the option ROM on the card necessary for it to boot from the SCSI card. I've tried several different SCSI cards (BusLogic, LSI, QLogic, Adaptec) and using a couple different video cards, one of them PCI. The only things I have plugged into the board are the video card and the SCSI card. Nothing seems to work. Am I missing an option in the BIOS or something?
Thanks, Mark.

Quote from: Jack the Newbie on 13-October-07, 06:11:28
Did you ever try with devices attached to the SCSI card? After all, what you want to boot from in the end is a SCSI drive. Try hooking up a SCSI drive to the card, otherwise it is hard to tell if there even is a problem at all.
On the board I am using for example, the Intel ICH7DH RAID BIOS is only executed if there is more than one SATA drive hooked up to the ports hosted by the controller.
That RAID BIOS has hooks into the system BIOS so it knows whether to initialize itself or not. How a SCSI card works is by having a boot ROM which scans the SCSI chain to determine drives. My use in all this is to have my system boot from my SAN. I'm using a QLogic 2300 for this purpose - and yes, it is connected into the SAN. However, as I said, it doesn't matter what if any devices are connected. The system BIOS MUST execute the option ROM on the card before the system even KNOWS there are SCSI devices to boot from. I'm not even getting as far as that. the option ROM never executes.
Maybe I'm not explaining myself well and my use of "option ROM" needs explaining further. When you power on a system you'll see the following in order:
1. Memory detection and count.
2. IDE/SATA scan.
3. BIOS looks for external cards and option ROMs, if they exist, are executed (SCSI in this case). You see this stage when you see something like "Adaptec 2940 BIOS v xx.xx - Press Ctrl-A to enter settings" or something like that. Next you'll see a listing of devices connected to that card, SCSI devices in this case - assuming you have any plugged in.
4. After POST status screen - displays CPU, memory, any serial/parallel/USB IO configured and all devices initialized by the system BIOS and their assigned IRQs.
5. System BIOS loads and runs the boot sector on the configured boot device. If any option ROMs have hooked themselves into interrupt 0x13 (option ROM boot interrupt), i.e. SCSI, then a SCSI boot device is used.
My problem is that step 3 is skipped. My system goes straight from step 2 to step 4. Without the option ROM being called by the system BIOS, there's no chance of any SCSI device being used as a boot device.
A good explanation of what an option ROM can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_ROM
- Mark.

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