Mac OS 9 Lives! Universal 9.2.2 Installation ported to pre-made QEMU Drive Image Info re: sampleCell II (TDM/pci) and software samplecell (SSC) Apple should have done better, but I still love Mac OS 9 regardless.Ĭan we run Mac OS 9 faster under emulation than the original hardware? Mac OS 9 doesn't natively read the SMART information, so you would need TechTool Pro 3 the minimum to get that information on Mac OS 9. Most of which were fixed by running the appropriate updater set I hear, so that's a little something. The rest of the issues I see are gremlins in your firmware which are far harder to work on. It will be easy to tell if it's failing by booting into X Panther or later and selecting the Hitachi drive in Disk Utility (not the partition it has named Mork though.) If you go for the Hitachi listing, it may say 'SMART Status: Failing' which point you have to get all your data off of it. I even have a Hitachi Deskstar 80 GB in my main Mac and am expecting it will crap out when I really need it. The common thread is that all of them were used in situations where if the hard drive all fails, the computer is useless to the person who needs it. It happened on 5 different drives from Western Digital and 1 Hitachi Deskstar so far. I have experienced that hard disks from Western Digital and IBM or Hitachi that are branded Deskstar have a dismaying tendency to so very thoroughly 'crap out'. Should I apply the Apple firmware update again? Any problems going backwards? Does anyone think this firmware patch could cause all this trouble when I reverted to the G3 ZIF? There was a prior firmware update from Apple, 'G3 Firmware Update' which I applied before the XLR8 patch.

The installation of the G4 500 processor required a firmware update patch supplied by XLR8 which allows a G3 to run a G4 processor. It failed and I reinstalled the original G3 350 MHz ZIF card. I once had an XLR8 G4 500 MHz ZIF processor upgrade in this B & W G3.

Restarting into OS X from OS 9 results in a chime, fan noise and a black screen.Īnother possible cause occurs to me. But after completing the installation of other system software, like fonts, Acrobat and Toast extensions, ATM 4.6.2, etc., the old problem returned. I could restart into either OS X system from OS 9. I did a clean install of OS 9.2.1 on both 'Mork' and 'Dr Who' and updated to OS 9.9.2. TL:dr - Can't restart into OS X from OS 9. I am also considering just living with the issue since this Mac doesn't get much use.ĭoes anyone have any further suggestions? Is this a hardware or software issue? Does this set of symptoms sound like a harbinger of worse problems to come? I am considering doing a clean install on all of the drives or reformatting and started over, but I really would rather not. Supposedly, these were repaired and the tests were marked 'Passed'. TTP found bad bundle bits for files that look related to startup: Startup Disk & Mac OS ROM on 'Mork' & 'Dr Who'. Ran complete diagnostics and repair with TechTool Pro 4. Other efforts, following the troubleshooting guide from Apple: That's the most life I have seen after that restart procedure. Interestingly, when I tried to restart into OS X from OS9 with just 128MB I got a message saying that OX requires 256MB RAM. Tried each 256MB DIMM by itself.Swapped out the four DIMMs with some others that I had, two 64MB and a 128. These are my efforts to fix the problem so far: This may have caused the problem, or maybe it is just a red herring. At that time, I didn't restart into that OS, but into the other OS 9 on 'Dr Who'. This problem began when I installed QuickTime 6.0.3 in OS 9 on 'Mork'. I am forced to restart with the reset button on the front, hold down the 'C' key and boot from the OS 9 CD where I can then restart into any OS. The chime sounds, the fans whir, but nothing else. What I cannot do is restart into either OS X system from either OS 9 Startup Disk control panel. I can restart from the OS 9 CD into either OS 9 or OS X. I can restart into any OS 9 system from either OS X Startup Disk preference pane. I can boot into any OS on any disk (except OS 9 on 'Conehead') from a cold start. I am also keeping an OS 9.2.1 installation disk in the DVD drive while I troubleshoot. Mac OS 9 will not boot from such a large drive. Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS 10.4.11 installed for Classic use. Mac OS 9.2.2 and Mac OS 10.4.11 installed. The other two drives are hooked up to a Sonnet Tempo Trio PCI card, ATA 133

'Dr Who' - original 6GB Quantum Fireball on the ATA 66 bus. The upgrade processor and video card failed quite some time ago and I reinstalled the original 350 MHz processor and VGA card. It's a Blue & White G3 350 MHz with 1 GB RAM and three hard drives. I keep a few older Macs around to run legacy applications and maintain old backups, including the one I am having trouble with.

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