Re: Installing 8.1 on a Beige G3

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 17:25:12 +0200
fixerb@national.shitposting.agency wrote:

> Right after running the install, sysinst detects the IDE disk as wd0, 
> but after that I get some device timeout readings and "soft errors" 
> corrected.
...
> data in some block on a disk and sometimes even a downpour of "read 
> failed" errors. Any partitioning work doesn't seem to have any effect.
> All of that pretty much screams hardware issue, but the thing is, I 
> can't find the cause. I swapped disks - same. I imaged the OG disk on 
> another machine - no problems there. I booted into MacOS 9 still 
> installed on the OG disk and dumped some stuff on it just to test 
> read&write - no problems there as well.

I had the same problem with my beige G3, the IDE controllers in this
thing are notoriously sensitive - try different ( newer! ) IDE cables,
reseat all the connectors, cross fingers.
This worked on mine at least.

have fun
Michael