[9.2.2] ZIP 100 boot disk a reality! Slight ramble
- From: "Eric P." <ericp06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:12:26 GMT
Hello,
Sometimes you fix one thing in your system, and doing so
solves other problems you might have given up on before.
Such is the case with my G4 AGP graphics system (1.5GHz
CPU, 1.37MB RAM, Finder/System/Panels optimized for speed).
Silverlining is my disk driver, but I also had Iomega loaded,
perhaps in ignorance. I couldn't find a way to make my syste
recognize a ZIP 100 disk as bootable, even though I've had
success with that under previous versions of the OS. I'd tried
everything I could think of, and some ideas from others, all
with no success. I put the issue on the back burner.
More recently, a problem that I thought was unrelated would
occasionally occur with restarts, after everything loaded and
an Applescript I'd written to arrange the volume/partition icons
on the desktop moved things around. One of the partition
icons from my internal HD would sometimes show up very
distorted, looking like a shredded document. Sometimes a
restart would fix it, sometimes five restarts were needed. If
I unmounted and remounted the volume via Silverlining, the
icon would reappear as it should. It's a pretty generic-looking
icon, with a color label applied. I explored a few things to try
to find and fix the problem, but also with no success. I began
to suspect that Desktop Swap Pro was to blame, but recalled
that the problem started before I installed that. I was at a
loss, and thought maybe I'd just have to live with the problem.
Today it occured to me that Silverlining (which I refuse to give
up, as it had always served me well on my old 9500/132 from
System 7.5.1 -> 8.6, and on my G4 from 9.0.4 -> 9.2.2) and
Iomega might be at odds with each other, so I disabled Iomega.
With my next restart, I noticed that, during the "march of
extensions," a Silverlining icon appeared that I'd never seen
before, that of a removable media drive (obviously representing
the internal ZIP drive). I felt encouraged, and dug up the disk
I wanted to use as a bootable utilities disk. Reformatted it,
copied essential system files and utilities to it, and selected
it in Silverlining as a startup disk. When you do that, the
OS' Startup Disk cp launches to show you what you've selected.
I was delighted to see that the system now recognizes the ZIP
as bootable, so I restarted. Sure enough, it boots! Takes a little
while, and at first I see the floppy icon with blinking question
mark, but then it recognizes, loads, and is good to go.
Let that be a lesson to me, and to anyone else who uses disk
drivers other than Apple's own: Don't have more than one
disk driver sw package installed and active at the same time!
I've deleted all my Iomega sw now, but still have the installers.
I have yet to see the distorted/hashed icon problem again, but
I won't hold my breath. I'm just hoping this driver issue has
also solved that problem.
Happy computing,
Eric
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