On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:49:59PM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > The short story: My 8500 won't boot if I remove a drive that should not > be accessed during boot. I would like to see if I can get the Mac to > boot without it.
> I have two theories about this: > > - The ID 0 drive holds the internal bus terminator. Maybe if I got a This is definitely true. > terminator I can mount on my ribbon cable, then things would work. Do > such terminators exist (this would mount on the internal ribbon cable, > not like the external terminators that have Centronics connectors on > them). Where could I find one? Sorry, I don't know. But you have the right idea. Or, since your new drive has termination capability, you could terminate it and set it to address 0 with the jumpers. > - The Mac is loading the SCSI disk driver off my ID 0 drive, and that > allows the Mac to continue to boot. I don't think that's it. The drivers are loaded off the same disk they read. > If that's the case, there wouldn't > be any way around leaving this drive installed, which would be > unfortunate, but workable. I'd have to mount my Linux disk in an > external case to do my file transfer. > -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
