Re: iMac G3 No boot CD, no boot HDD

keefemd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <keefemd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

tacit wrote:
A hard drive that makes repeated clicks or clunks has almost always
failed. Remove the hard drive from your computer, throw it away,a nd
replace it. That should solve your problem.

I removed the drive entirely, but the CD still does not boot.

The iMac G3 has its ATA bus configured with the hard drive as the master
and the CD as the slave. My understanding is that the slave device is
not accessible if the master is not functioning correctly (or is
missing).

This probably explains the original failure to start up from the CD (the
hard drive wasn't responding to the motherboard, and therefore the slave
device, i.e. the CD-ROM, wasn't accessible either). It definitely
explains the CD not working with no hard drive installed.

--
David Empson
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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