Missing hard drive jumper can prevent OS X install

Mar 07, '03 07:58:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

A friend of mine managed to pick up a couple of beige G3 266 desktop computers from a company that was going out of business. On three out of four computers, 10.2 loaded fine. On the fourth, we had no problems loading OS 9, but it would not take OS X of any variety. It would start to load, but then never boot from the hard drive.

Anyway we intended to swap hard drives with another computer when I noticed that the jumper that sets the drive to either master or slave was missing. We borrowed a jumper, installed it, and everything worked normally. Removed the jumper from another machine, no install. Strange but true....

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