Doesn’t detect an hard drive on B&W PowerMac G3

[alestanga]

I’ve connected a SATA to IDE adapter on the CD’s ATA cable, CD is master and SSD slave.
Mac OS detects both CD and SATA drive without any issue (it’s a 240GB SSD detected as a 128GB drive obviously)
The ARC firmware partitioner doesn’t detect any drive, well, it detects the CD and loads the virtual floppy, but it doesn’t detect the SSD.
Is it because of its size exceeding 128GB?
Is it because it is set as slave?
Should I swap the drives on the cable and set the jumpers so that the CD would be slave and the SSD master?
Thank you.

[Wack0]

Might be because of size exceeding 128GB? I know some people have had an issue with CD being device 0 and HD being device 1 though.

[alestanga]

Well, setting the CD as slave and the SSD as master make them both still visible in OS9 but I can’t boot from the CD anymore, not in OS9 installation CD nor in OSX’s

[Wack0]

try holding down Z for zipdisk as that's what that IDE device was intended to be used for

[alestanga]

It doesn’t work either, it still boots OS9.
Multi-boot in OF only shows the HD connected to the PCI controller on the motherboard.
Also dir zip:\ in OF doesn’t work

[Wack0]

ok, so maybe it's some hardware issue with the ssd and the ide controller, i've known that to be an issue. for example my lombard has an ssd in it and the two ide controllers won't power on at the same time.

[alestanga]

What’s weird is the fact that Mac OS does recognize both devices, SSD and DVD drive, connected to the mac-io ATA, while OF doesn’t seem to play nice with this combo.
It sees the SSD as id=1 and the DVD drive as id=0, Mac OS 9

[alestanga]

So, at least on the B&W PowerMac G3, to be able to boot from the optical drive connected to the ATA connector you have to set both HD and optical drive as cable select.