7 Jun
2009
7 Jun
'09
5:12 p.m.
2009/6/6 Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com>:
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Cameron
Kaiser<spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
Erm. I already answered some of these questions. If you'd like to
reply to my message from yesterday, pointing out which bits I've not
addressed, I'll see what I can tell you.
If you're prepared to pay shipping from the UK, I'll post a Mac floppy
drive or two for free. Same for a couple of smallish Mac SCSI hard
disks.
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You could try zapping PRAM (Cmd-Opt-P-R as the
machine starts up; let it
chime a couple times with the keys held down) but this may not help as the
bogus System Folder will still be blessed. A sure fix would be to boot
from a valid secondary device, but with a bum floppy drive you're really
hosed.
I'll try this tonight.
I'm suspecting the Mac you have was messed up
by its previous owner -- a
lot of these errors would be inexplicable with normal use. A full reinstall
of 7.6 or 8.1 from an external CD-ROM would be strongly advised.
An apple CDROM drive, like the 300 or 600 is on the shopping list.
Any ideas where I can get a OS image I can burn from vista?
Also, which version would be best on a quadra 700? ?I've heard that
7.6 was best for performance, but I care less about performance and
more about functionality. ?Is there an advantage to upgrading to 8.1?
The scsi hard drive that's in there now is a smaller capacity, but
it's half-height, slightly too big for the case. ?The top latches in
place, but you have to bend it slightly to do that. ?I have a 1gig
scsi drive(1" high, quantum iirc) ?from an amiga that I can use
instead. ?If I'm going to reinstall the OS, maybe I should go that
route. ?Anything I should consider before trying to do that?
Does anyone make a scsi floppy drive that I could put in my external
enclosure? ?Do these even exist? ?What about zip/jaz/syquest drives?
Is it possible to install 7.6 or 8.1, then pull the hard drive and
attach it to a PC, mount the mac parition, and copy a large number of
disk images over? ?I have a PCI adaptec scsi controller floating
around somwhere. ?What about booting from an ubuntu CD?
Another angle is the adaptec scsi disk in a PC, copy files over, mount
the disk on a mac. ?I have another 100gig disk I could use for this.
Are there any non-mac file systems that the mac can mount, like maybe
fat32?
Also, where can I buy two new/refurb mac floppy drives?
thanks
brian