I cleared the G4 DA by removing its drives (three of them) to a G4 MDD, where they work properly and without any grizzles or KPs. The one unfortunate response was OS 9.2.2's inability to 'see' drives on the MDD's inbuilt ATA/100 bus without the mythical, mystical, fabled Mac OS ROM v9.5.1 in its System Folder. OS 10.4.11 has no problem, however, as I have both optical drives on the inbuilt ATA/66 bus, and all three HDDs on a Sonnet ATA/100 PCI card, although that does not help poor old OS 9, of course. The software had been cloned from an Indigo iMac/500 onto the DA only a couple of months ago.
Thank you both for your responses, not the least outcome of which is something that I had not previously considered: machine-specific elements of System software. My wife's eMac has always stood apart in a cosy little club of eMac/1GHz, iMac/500 DVSE and iBook/600, because they are for her use only, whereas Systems, OSes, apps and downloads have always circulated freely between my Macs, which include four iMacs as well as G3/G4-upgraded Beige G3s and later 60x Macs. If eMac-specific software is getting in the road of a functional clone from eMac to DA, archive-and-install may be the only solution. Identification of the villainous software, apart from the hint from AudioIPCDriver.kext, is probably not going to be easy.
Trying to find an arcane piece of software such as Mac OS ROM 9.5.1 has been a fruitless task so far after three weeks, although I found and am using v9.0.1, so finding a nameless piece without the benefit of Apple's documentation would be no breeze.
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Thank you both for your responses, not the least outcome of which is something that I had not previously considered: machine-specific elements of System software. My wife's eMac has always stood apart in a cosy little club of eMac/1GHz, iMac/500 DVSE and iBook/600, because they are for her use only, whereas Systems, OSes, apps and downloads have always circulated freely between my Macs, which include four iMacs as well as G3/G4-upgraded Beige G3s and later 60x Macs. If eMac-specific software is getting in the road of a functional clone from eMac to DA, archive-and-install may be the only solution. Identification of the villainous software, apart from the hint from AudioIPCDriver.kext, is probably not going to be easy.
Trying to find an arcane piece of software such as Mac OS ROM 9.5.1 has been a fruitless task so far after three weeks, although I found and am using v9.0.1, so finding a nameless piece without the benefit of Apple's documentation would be no breeze.
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