On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Doc<doc at vaxen.net> wrote:
?7.6.1 will only speak to Apple-branded SCSI
disks. ?However, there's a
patched set of MacOS 7.6.1 disk tools out there, shouldn't be hard to google
up.
Shoot me.
Yeah. I still have an Apple-branded 20MB and 400MB drive on the shelf
for my old Mac stuff. Once you are up, you can install the FWB
Toolkit to drop a brand-less driver on the front of your non-Apple
drive, but getting up from original Apple media without an Apple drive
was something of a challenge back in the day - normally, all Apple
machines _came_ with Apple drives, so you were only totally screwed if
your original drive died (or if you got a used machine that someone
else replaced the drive in).
I remember having all kinds of trouble with this about 12-14 years
ago. I used floppy-based Macs in the early days (pre System-6.0),
then went away (to Amigas and such), and when I came back to Macs
newer than the Mac SE (Quadras and Mac IIs and such), I found several
parts of the experience maddening - top of the list was Apple drive
branding.
Thanks for pointing out the patches, Doc. I would have *loved* to
have had those back in 1996-1997.
-ethan