I fussed with it for a couple hours last night and I got it working!
The issue appears to be an incompatibility between the driver that the FWB disk utility installed and the Sonnet Crescendo extension.
I loaded the LaCie Silverlining Pro 6.x utility and tested that driver on one of the 2 SCSI...
This one should be a Tsunami logic board with the cache soldered on the board. There is not a DIMM in the socket.
I’ve been trying to get the old drive to work on and off but it’s not really responding. I’m guessing the electronics on the board have died, bad caps maybe?
Specs:
Original system:
Power Mac 9600/200
Now:
9600 w/ Sonnet Crescendo G3/450
RAM: 160MB, 4 32MB, 2 16MB in slots 6,5,4.
Hard drive: 80 pin SCSI 16GB or 50 pin SCSI 9GB from Free Geek Twin Cities. Same issue with both. Original drive as received was a 36GB with MacOS 9.1.
CD drive...
I found a Power Mac 9600/200 on FB Marketplace and traded for it. Cleaned it up, replaced the PRAM battery, checked the caps. Powered it up and it worked fine. Booted into Mac OS. It came with a Sonnet G3 450 and it booted into MacOS, with Sonnet splash screen each time. I used it for...