Last week I bought a G4 450 server from ebay. It came with a 20gb internal Ultra SCSI which had Jaguar on. The drive is fine and anything installed on it is fine.
My old G3 machine, that the G4 superceded, had an ATA 40gb drive in it loaded with software. I removed it from the G3 and after putting an IDE cable into the Ultra ATA socket on the G4s motherboard I tried to use the drive.
At first the drive wouldn't mount at all which I suspect was just a jumper problem. Eventually it mounted but attempting to open the desktop icons for the drives 5 partitions caused the Finder to crash - again and again and again.
I tried running Disk Warrior over the partitions and it said there were a lot of problems with wrappers etc. Eventually I backed up all the data in OS9 and reformatted the drives using the same partition setup. That is I totally reformatted the drive and THEN partitioned it again.
However, this makes no difference. Any application installed on one of these partitions refuses to boot. They BEGIN to boot and then just fail. Often a data file such as a Photoshop file says it's corrupt. Fonts sometimes work and sometimes cause Suitcase to crash.
I did notice that after copying fonts to a partition and then testing it with Disk Warrior it threw up a list of busted icons which I fixed - however, often, if I open a folder with fonts in, it will crash either the finder or Suitcase.
I have played around continuously with the permissions settings and got no joy and am completely at a loss now. Is it the hardware or some weird glitch in OSX - oh, btw - i reinstalled a fresh copy of Jaguar as well but it made no difference.
Has anyone had a similar experience or can help with this?
My old G3 machine, that the G4 superceded, had an ATA 40gb drive in it loaded with software. I removed it from the G3 and after putting an IDE cable into the Ultra ATA socket on the G4s motherboard I tried to use the drive.
At first the drive wouldn't mount at all which I suspect was just a jumper problem. Eventually it mounted but attempting to open the desktop icons for the drives 5 partitions caused the Finder to crash - again and again and again.
I tried running Disk Warrior over the partitions and it said there were a lot of problems with wrappers etc. Eventually I backed up all the data in OS9 and reformatted the drives using the same partition setup. That is I totally reformatted the drive and THEN partitioned it again.
However, this makes no difference. Any application installed on one of these partitions refuses to boot. They BEGIN to boot and then just fail. Often a data file such as a Photoshop file says it's corrupt. Fonts sometimes work and sometimes cause Suitcase to crash.
I did notice that after copying fonts to a partition and then testing it with Disk Warrior it threw up a list of busted icons which I fixed - however, often, if I open a folder with fonts in, it will crash either the finder or Suitcase.
I have played around continuously with the permissions settings and got no joy and am completely at a loss now. Is it the hardware or some weird glitch in OSX - oh, btw - i reinstalled a fresh copy of Jaguar as well but it made no difference.
Has anyone had a similar experience or can help with this?
