CD-ROM TOOLKIT
1. THE CD-ROM TOOLKIT CONTROL PANEL DOES NOT INSTALL WITH THE SYSTEM SOFTWARE INSTALLERS ON THE POWER COMPUTING CD. If a clean install of system software is performed, users will then have to install the CD-ROM Toolkit if they want to be able to mount CDs. Of course, since they can't mount CDs, booting from the CD is necessary. To do this, command-option-shift-delete must be held down at startup with the Power Computing CD inserted.
To install the CD-ROM Toolkit from the RED CD
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Open the "Bundled Software" folder on the Power CD. Inside of it you will
see another folder titled "CD-ROM Toolkit". Open it and drag the item
labeled "InstallerÓ to your hard drive. Restart your computer while holding
the Shift key to boot with extensions off. Locate the "Installer" that you
just copied to the hard drive and double-click on it. The next time you
restart the computer, your CDs should mount.
To install CD-ROM Toolkit from any other Power CD
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Open the "CD-ROM Software" folder on the Power CD and double click on the
item named CD Software Installer. When the installer window opens, click on
the button labeled Install. Once the installer is finished, restart your
computer. CDs should now mount with no problem.
2. THE CD-ROM TOOLKIT CONTROL PANEL gives the user several options to customize. The control panel will give a display of all the devices on the SCSI chain, along with their SCSI ID numbers. All CD-ROM drives that ship with the Power Computing machine are sent from the factory with SCSI ID #3.
The first of the two check boxes to the left of the CD-ROM drive name will enable the loading of the toolkit at startup and the other turns on the Fast SCSI Acceleration option. IF THE FAST SCSI ACCELERATION BOXED IS CHECKED AND THE "AUTOMATICALLY BUILD CD-ROM CACHE FILES" BOX IS NOT CHECKED BELOW, you will get a dialog box displayed every time you attempt to mount a CD asking you if you want to accelerate the CD. By checking the box to automatically prescan CDs, you won't get that message.
3. THE RAM CACHE. This option takes the most frequently used instructions and saves them temporarily in RAM, which increases performance. However it should not be set exceedingly high, as this directly takes away from the ram your system uses, and your system heap might not be able to expand that high.
4. IF THE CD-ROM TOOLKIT DETECTS A PROBLEM with a CD, a dialog box will appear telling you that it will attempt to mount the CD anyway, or that it's too damaged to mount.
5. IF YOU HAVE THE CD-ROM TOOLKIT INSTALLED BUT NO CDs WILL MOUNT, then it's possible you're experiencing an extension conflict. Use the Extensions Manager, which is in the control panels folder, to turn off all of the extensions except for the CD-ROM Toolkit. If the problem goes away after restarting, you definitely have an extension conflict and you must then use the Extensions Manager again to troubleshoot the extensions, using the process of elimination. By turning off a number of extensions or control panels at a time, restarting, and then trying to recreate the problem, you will inevitably come across the one causing a problem.
HARD DISK TOOLKIT
1. IF YOUR INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL HARD DISK, REMOVABLE MEDIA DRIVE, OR OTHER SCSI DEVICE WILL NOT MOUNT, use the HDT Primer PE, which is in the Power CD in the Utilities Folder. (If the internal hard disk will not mount, you will probably need to boot from the Power CD, which you can do by inserting the CD and then pressing command-option-shift-delete and keeping them pressed during the startup sequence).
Launch the HDT Primer and you will see the list of SCSI devices connected to the machine, their SCSI ID numbers, volume name, and size. At that point, if you see the device listed that is not mounting, you may select it and attempt to mount it using the "Mount" button. If it is a read/write storage device (like a hard disk or removable media drive) and it will not mount, it may be necessary for you to format the drive, as the formatting software currently on the device is probably corrupt or incompatible with this version of FWB. If reformatting becomes necessary, you will lose all of the information currently on the drive, so consult a data recovery service or use a data recovery software.
Another thing to try is selecting the device and clicking the "Test" button to see if it can find any problems. Also, read the Read Me file in the Hard Disk Toolkit folder in the Power CD entitled "List of Supported Devices" to see if the device you have will in fact work with HDT.
2. IF HDT PRIMER DOESN'T SEE THE DESIRED DEVICE AT ALL, then go up to the "SCSI BUS" menu at the top of the screen while in HDT Primer and select "SCSI Bus 1: Apple {Internal/External}" so that the external SCSI bus will be scanned. (Only Power Computing machines with two SCSI busses will show more than one choice in this menu.) If it still doesn't see the device, then it's possible that the device or its cabling is damaged. If that is the case, consult a data recovery service to see if you can retrieve the lost data
3. IF YOU WISH TO PARTITION AN EMPTY HARD DISK ALREADY FORMATTED WITH FWB, follow the above instructions to launch the HDT Primer, select the desired drive, then click the "Partition" button. Then click on the "Modify" button on the bottom of the partition window.
Now, before we get started, let's look at an example: If you had a one gigabyte hard drive that you wanted to partition into two 500 megabyte parts, you would click the "Partition" button, set the current partition to 500 megabytes and then click the "Modify" button. Then click the "New" button and set the new partition to 500 megabytes as well. When you're done, you will have two partitions around 500 megabytes. Remember that although certain drives are "730 MB" or "1 Gig", etc., some of that space is being taken up by formatting software, etc., so don't expect the numbers to always add up perfectly. It should be close, though. For example, the 730 MB hard disks are seen as 699 MB with HDT Primer.
4. IF YOU WISH TO UPDATE THE DRIVER SOFTWARE, then follow the above directions
to launch the HDT Primer, select the desired drive, select the "File" menu, and choose "Update."
Machines Affected: All