[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux on iMac G3 PowerPC 333Mhz Rev D.

[David Simmons]

> No problem, glad to hear it is working for you.  For future
> reference could you expand on what it was that actually fixed
> the problem.

Sure - I should know better! - geez

> > The other thing is make sure the
> > cdrom you are using is not set to cable select or slave.  If I remember
> > right you are showing it is the primary device on the secondary ide
> > interface.
>
> BINGO....actually it was the opposite of this, but provided an
> easy test to
> do..and it work...SO, as they say:

Having located the Master/Slave/Cable-Select switch on the removed (assumed
broke) CD-Rom, I found the slide-switch that changes this setting.  I
noticed that the one that was removed was on the 'Master' setting.  The
replacement CD-Rom that I put in was on 'Slave'.  After changing it to what
the old unit was, it recognized the CD-Rom.

Which leads to be a bigger question.  Does the iMac have a two channel IDE
path? (simliar to normal PC's)??  Meaning that the hard-drive (since the
base iMac just has one) would be the Master for it's channel.....and the
CD-Rom would be the 'Master' of it's channel?

OR

Does the unit have a single IDE channel meaning that I've really foobar'ed
the system by making the CD-Rom the 'Master' (and hence the HD now a slave)?
I'm doubting this since when I booted the Gentoo PowerPC LiveCD - I could
see /dev/hda as the hard-drive with the Macintosh partitions?

Just wanting to put my mind at ease!

Thanks again - Dave