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Well I tricked the B&W into booting from a slave, but can't seem to repeat it. - Guitarman - 03-23-2006
I chose a different volume to start up from, renamed it and then restarted, It couldn't find an OS9 volume to start from, so it went to the slave drive to start. When I chose the slave drive, well it then went to the renamed volume on the master drive. I guess a volume on the master drive gets priority no matter what, but this is sure weird behaviour. We at least I proved that booting from a slave drive is possible, the problem is getting it to be reliable.
Re: Well I tricked the B&W into booting from a slave, but can't seem to repeat it. - Seacrest - 03-23-2006
Them dang slaves!
They ain't n'er reliable!
Re: Well I tricked the B&W into booting from a slave, but can't seem to repeat it. - karsen - 03-23-2006
Fool me once...
Re: Well I tricked the B&W into booting from a slave, but can't seem to repeat it. - mattkime - 03-23-2006
yeah, i think i experienced that before too.
reread my previous recommendation.
Re: Well I tricked the B&W into booting from a slave, but can't seem to repeat it. - Grumpyguy - 03-23-2006
been a long time, but wasn't that a problem only with revision 1 B&Ws?
Revision 2s don't have that problem.
If you have a Rev 1, the only solution is an internal ata pci card....
Re: Well I tricked the B&W into booting from a slave, but can't seem to repeat it. - Guitarman - 03-23-2006
nope this is a rev 2. it's a 450 and all 450s were rev 2s.
Re: Well I tricked the B&W into booting from a slave, but can't seem to repeat it. - davec - 03-23-2006
Guitarman, perhaps it is an OS 9 issue? My son has a 450mhz B&W and has had no problems booting from the slave drive under OS 10.3.9. Good Luck! Dave