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.
I'm back to the chicken or egg problem then. I have the disk image,
and it seemed to write correctly with rawrite on my usb floppy. But
the quadra claims that it's not formatted. Same for pc formatted
disks. Could be a bad drive. But most likely it's a bad disk.
This hard drive *has* MacOS on it. Shouldn't it work then? I got the
feeling that they were using some sort of disk compression with it. I
might be wrong though. Maybe it doesn't matter.
I considered burning a cdrom with some utilities on it. But I can't
get the cdrom drive to eject. I guess it doesn't want to give up its
system disk. And I'm not sure I can create an image it would read
anyway. And I'm not sure I can get at the file in the bin file.
I think I have a pci scsi controller somewhere. I could pull the disk
and put it in my vista machine. If this were an amiga, I could use
WinUAE and format the disk and install. I don't think such a thing
exists for the mac though.
I do have the IIfx I haven't tried to revive yet. That one requires
the magic black external terminator so I suspect the 600e won't work
with it. I've been meaning to get a nubus scsi controller for it to
get around this. Not sure if that would work though. It might be an
apple branded drive. I believe it's a quantum 1" disk. That's
probably worth a try.
brian