Powermac G3 Restoration Software Will Not Recognize New Hard Drive

[FleetwoodMacAndCheese]

Hi,

I'm restoring a PowerMac with the Original OS 8.5 CD. The original HDD is clicking. I've tried to mount a few known good IDE drives, but every one kicks in the install, saying no compatible drive can be found.

Am I missing a registration step, or do I have to initialize a specific file system?

The system does successfully find the old disk when it tries to boot, so I don't think I'm hitting a south-bridge or other motherboard related issue, but I can't seem to google up a thread where anyone else had this problem.

 

[NeXT]

Apple's formatter at the time had a whitelist of "supported" drives. Any drive will work, really, but you had to use either a third party utility to prepare the drive or use ResEdit to patch out the whitelist.

 

[FleetwoodMacAndCheese]

Thanks! I'll look in to ResEdit. If there were prep tools, Do you know if I can initialize a new disk via a disk clone from the clicker, to pull off the drive ID and partition table? Or does the drive have to get white listed to the motherboard?

 

[MontyL]

I'm trying to recall my steps when stuffing a "new" drive in mine... I believe I laid the partition map and formatted from Linux, the macOS installer did the rest after it was mounted in the beige box.

 

[finkmac]

Apple's formatter at the time had a whitelist of "supported" drives. Any drive will work, really, but you had to use either a third party utility to prepare the drive or use ResEdit to patch out the whitelist.

ATA drives are not restricted, only SCSI disks are.