Dual G5 Leopard freeze/hang
- From: JohnAnon <JohnAnon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:41:55 -0800 (PST)
Previously...
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Michael Siemon Dec 6 2007
Little Sir Echo wrote:
Davoud wrote:
I installed Leopard on my 17" PowerBook G4, 24" Intel iMac, MacBookThat's odd? It works fine on my Dual G5. I guess it just goes to show
Pro, and Dual G5. I've also installed it on a couple of iMacs and a
couple of MB Pros for others.
It flat won't run reliably on the Dual G5 -- random crashes, and I did
everything including let a team of Apple engineers test the machine and
try to make it work.
that there are a lot of variables that may make a difference!
I'm with Davoud. And the flakiness continues in Leopard even after I
removed the only non-Apple hardware (a Sonnet Jive assembly and its
associated card...)
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And I had posted subsequently in that thread to say that Leopard only
stayed up for a minute after booting on my dual G5.
I only just got back to trying to figure out what it was going to take
to get it working.
It turned out to be my Sonnet SATA 4+4 (eight SATA ports) controller
card. I had started my administrator-is-going-to-debug-this sequence
with pulling out the three added drives (Swift Kit) and pulling out
four of the eight Gb memory chips (mini memory cards, really). Then a
long sequence of reseating memory and booting. I ended up with all
eight Gb back in, then I put the innermost disk back in. Leopard
froze. BTW, I had turned off all the external disks attached to the
Sonnet too.
I then went through a long sequence of installing and uninstalling
SoftRAID on various disks and converting them to and from Apple format
disks and SoftRAID format disks.
Eventually I realized that any disk (well, I didn't have a second
Leopard disk) that was attached to the Sonnet card caused the
freezing.
I checked the Sonnet site for firmware updates.
The latest one:
* New in Version 2.1.3
- Adds support for 10.5 [...]
http://www.sonnettech.com/support/downloads/computercards.html
#
# Tempo Serial ATA PCIe/PCI-X Family Firmware Updater (Mac)
# Description: This software updates 4-port and 8-port Tempo SATA
host controller cards' flash ROM (firmware) to version 2.1.3.
When did Sonnet release this patch?
# Version: 2.1.3
# Posted March 3, 2008
Leopard and I lived happily ever after.
Er, no, we didn't.
The first thing that I did was install my Adobe CS 2 Premium. It
installed fine except for some SVG viewer. The Internet activation
went right through (same machine as my Tiger installation). None of
the apps would run. So, off to the Adobe site...it says CS2 was not
ported to Leopard, you are screwed. Or pay $400 for a CS3 upgrade.
Now's not a good time.
So I took a copy of CS3 that I had sitting around that I had gotten
from, ugh, from...let's just say I downloaded a trial copy of CS3.
CS3 was dead on arrival for my Leopard disk. Why? Because I had
created it as a case-sensitive HFS+ file system.
Sigh.
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