7 Jun
2009
7 Jun
'09
6:25 p.m.
Sorry, I didn't see this email until today. Gmail has a tendency to
stack things up and hide them from me.
Quadra 700 - so it's a 25MHz 68040. How much RAM
has it got?
I can't check now since it's hosed. But I believe it's 4megs.
There's 4 simms in there I know.
I'd strongly suggest, as others have observed,
wiping it & installing
MacOS 8.1. It's got much better TCP/IP handling and also better
handling of alien disk formats. You might even have a chance of
recognising and handling a DVD, though I wouldn't put money on it.
A bit more info as to why:
http://lowendmac.com/sable/06/0911.html
8.1 boot CDs are rare. It's easier to get a copy of 8.0 and download
and install the free 8.1 update, which Apple still offers.
If you're really stuck, I might be able to find a spare CD of 8.0
somewhere for you.
I've ordered a 600e cdrom drive and also one auto-inject floppy drive,
but i need one for the IIfx also. Still can't find an 8.0 cd. What
would it cost to send a floppy drive and the 8.0 cd? Also, do you
have some VRAM simms that you would be willing to part with?
It'll still require 3rd party tools to talk to a
Windows network,
though. If you have NT Server, though, it has a Mac file-sharing mode,
even back in NT3. That will work fine.
Once floppies are working, that should be straight-forward.
For 3rd party hard disks, you also need a 3rd party
tool, although
it's not a driver as such - it's just a partitioner/formatter.
(Technically, it embeds the driver into the partition structure of the
drive, so the MacOS automatically loads it the 1st time that it sees
the drive. This is transparent - you can even boot off such a drive.)
I use SilverLining but there's also a LaCie tool and various others -
most vendors of 3rd party SCSI hard disks offered them.
There are three or four of these sorts of things on the machine
already. When I put the new disk in, I'll put the old one in the
external box and pull the software off.
In my experience, reading non-Mac CDs on Classic MacOS
is very iffy,
especially if they're home-burned ones. I've never found an adequate
way around this. It's /supposed/ to work but often won't.
I'll tinker. Once it's on the network, even with just ftp, I won't
really need to read CDs anymore, although it would certainly make
things easier.
brian