Day Three.

Engineers Log.

The SCSI card flashed fine so until I unravel the mystery of non-corrupting IDE drives, I went ahead with using my old WD disk. As it was unsupported, I had to ResEdit Drive Setup to initialise it but that wasn't too hard. Installed 8.5.1 from the restore CD but on reboot it won't boot from the disk. Just the flashing system folder icon.