I've got a Maxtor ATA-66 drive that until recently would boot OS X
Tiger on a Blue and White G3. But now it won't boot anymore, and Mac
OS 9.2.2 can't see it.
However, when I boot off the Tiger installer CD, the CD's OS X can see
it just fine, and Disk First Aid says there are no errors.
I wanted to make sure my data was safe, so I put it in a FireWire
enclosure and was able to mount it on a MacBook Pro running 10.4.11,
and copied all my end-user data from it.
I thought at first that my problem might be the firmware in the ATA-66
controller, so I reflashed it, but that didn't help.
I thought maybe it would help to install the OS 9 driver on the disk,
but FWB Hard Disk Toolkit running under 9.2.2 says it can't find a
valid partition map.
So somehow the partition map is screwed up enough that neither Open
Firmware nor 9.2.2 can use it, but not so bad that OS X can't!
I know the best thing to do would be to reformat the drive - maybe
I've got bad sectors in the partition map - but is there a way I can
fix this without having to do so? It would take me a long time to
reinstall OS X and all the updates. (Happily, I archived them all, so
I won't have to download them again.)
Drive Setup under 9.2.2 lists my drive as "not initialized".
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
Mike
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Michael David Crawford
mdcrawford at gmail dot com
I'm looking for a job in Silicon Valley:
http://www.goingware.com/resume/cover-letter.html
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