When selecting a HD to partition, ARC locks up when highlighting hd-1

[WGriffithsBLI]

So I was trying this on both my Lombard and my B&W G3 and I found when using my IDE-to-SD as well as a Maxtor Hard drive, selecting a drive to partition/format/prepare in the initial part of the process results in the drive being recognized as 0MB and upon highlighting it, ARC hardlocks.

The Maxtor drive was 40GB, and my SD Cards were 16GB and 32GB. Is there a hard limit of 8GB we're dealing with here or something else? I haven't got a drive less than 8GB to test with right now.

[Compgeke]

Make sure the drive is on the same chain as the CD drive's IDE and not the hard drive chain's IDE port.

[WGriffithsBLI]

Nope, still doing it on the same IDE chain on the B&W, and on both IDE ports.
Incidentally, there is no 'other' chain I could put the hard drive on in the Lombard.

[WGriffithsBLI]

I think I have it figured out. I've been dealing with the red herring of bad IDE ribbons, both in the Lombard and in my B&W G3. The one in the B&W is partially working, as in the main connector is bad, but if I connect using the master on the board and the slave on the drive, the ribbon works. So yeah that thing is duffed up haha.

Second part, the ARC firmware is incompatible with the Ultra ATA bus on the B&W G3, one must use the IDE header that the CD drive is usually on for BOTH the Hard Drive and CD-ROM. If the Ultra ATA bus is used for the CD-ROM, ARC hangs on the initial load, and if it's used for the hard drive, it will fail to detect it.

[Wack0]

"the ARC firmware is incompatible with the Ultra ATA bus on the B&W G3"

this is known, there's no PCI IDE drivers in the ARC firmware yet, although I don't know if atapi.sys allows it to work under NT.

"hd-1" is some off by one error anyway, should be hd00 onwards. Something to try to figure out and fix later, as although it's caused by bad IDE cable, there's still an ARC firmware bug somewhere...

[WGriffithsBLI]

Okay, I'd advise adjusting the verbage on that as when I saw 'no PCI IDE drivers', I understood that to be that IDE on PCI -cards- was unsupported. It'd be of great help to add "this means that the Ultra ATA IDE header on the B&W G3 is NOT compatible". Most folks don't know how the B&W works under the hood and while I understood that its two IDE buses were indeed different, I did not know one relied on PCI and the other did not, and I say that as a guy that's messed around with Macs of this vintage for 25 years haha.