Installing Panther on B&W... right now
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I didn't have any problems with my installs of 10.3, but I have 'newer' machines. My brother however did have a problem when trying to install 10.3 on his B&W.
He bought my old B&W from me, which has the following hardware: A 550 G4 from Xlr8 (closed now), and a sonnet-tech ata 66 card.
10.3 does not like the hard drives installed on that ata 66 card one bit. The machine has one drive still hooked up to the factory ata cable, and two drives hooked up to the ata 66 card.
Tried installing 10.3 on one of the drives hooked up to the ata 66 card (a 120 gig maxtor drive), did a clean install on a freshly initialized drive. The 10.3 installer had no problems seeing either drive hooked up to the ata 66 card. Installation went fine through all 3 discs, and upon re-start nothing but a spinning beach ball, the finder would never startup.
I did make sure that the firmware for the card was up to date and everything, and didn't have this problem with any of the panther betas, but they changed something in the final that didn't agree with this card.
At this point the next step, is to try and install it on the drive that is hooked up to the factory ata controller, and see if that works......when I get the time.
He bought my old B&W from me, which has the following hardware: A 550 G4 from Xlr8 (closed now), and a sonnet-tech ata 66 card.
10.3 does not like the hard drives installed on that ata 66 card one bit. The machine has one drive still hooked up to the factory ata cable, and two drives hooked up to the ata 66 card.
Tried installing 10.3 on one of the drives hooked up to the ata 66 card (a 120 gig maxtor drive), did a clean install on a freshly initialized drive. The 10.3 installer had no problems seeing either drive hooked up to the ata 66 card. Installation went fine through all 3 discs, and upon re-start nothing but a spinning beach ball, the finder would never startup.
I did make sure that the firmware for the card was up to date and everything, and didn't have this problem with any of the panther betas, but they changed something in the final that didn't agree with this card.
At this point the next step, is to try and install it on the drive that is hooked up to the factory ata controller, and see if that works......when I get the time.