20 Mar
2001
20 Mar
'01
8:53 a.m.
OK, one more dumb question about the SE/30.
I have just Mac formatted a Toshiba 834mb drive to install in lieu of
the puny 31mb unit that came with it. Is it possible to partition this
drive into two or more bootable logical drives? Say, one for MacOS 7.n
and another for some ?nix derivative? Perhaps another for CP/M-68K?
Thanks!
- don
20 Mar
20 Mar
9:46 a.m.
But of course. When launching Apple HD-SC, choose "2 Partitions" from the
drop-down menu, and adjust the sizes accordingly. For *BSD or linux/M68k
you need to make one A/UX root slice 0, I think. I didn't know they made
CP/M for the Macs....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Maslin" <donm(a)cts.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Mac SE/30
OK, one more dumb question about the SE/30.
I have just Mac formatted a Toshiba 834mb drive to install in lieu of
the puny 31mb unit that came with it. Is it possible to partition this
drive into two or more bootable logical drives? Say, one for MacOS 7.n
and another for some ?nix derivative? Perhaps another for CP/M-68K?
Thanks!
- don
9:50 a.m.
I have just Mac formatted a Toshiba 834mb drive to
install in lieu of
the puny 31mb unit that came with it. Is it possible to partition this
drive into two or more bootable logical drives? Say, one for MacOS 7.n
and another for some ?nix derivative? Perhaps another for CP/M-68K?
Yes, definitely.
If it's Apple-branded (probably isn't) any copy of HDSC Drive Setup will do
that is 68K friendly. They come with most MacOS installs.
If it isn't, there's a straight-forward patch you can do with ResEdit, or
you can get one of the third-party formatters (try
http://www.accesscom.com/~gamba/ -- he should have lots of these).
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9:54 a.m.
Hi Don,
Is there REALLY a CP/M-68K for Macs? Cool!
Edwin
At 11:53 AM 3/20/2001 -0800, you wrote:
I have just Mac formatted a Toshiba 834mb drive to install in lieu of
the puny 31mb unit that came with it. Is it possible to partition this
drive into two or more bootable logical drives? Say, one for MacOS 7.n
and another for some ?nix derivative? Perhaps another for CP/M-68K?
Thanks!
- don
5:52 p.m.
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Don Maslin wrote:
OK, one more dumb question about the SE/30.
I have just Mac formatted a Toshiba 834mb drive to install in lieu of
the puny 31mb unit that came with it. Is it possible to partition this
drive into two or more bootable logical drives? Say, one for MacOS 7.n
and another for some ?nix derivative? Perhaps another for CP/M-68K?
The picture has changed rather suddenly! Today I stopped at my favorite
thrift shop and picked up an external SCSI drive and case for under $10.
Imagine my pleasure when it turned out to contain a Quantum Trailblazer
- the 800k one - loaded with MacOS 7.5.3 and numerous applications. I
also stuffed some more memory into the SE/30 so it seems a bit more
comfortable :)
I will still pursue the bootable partitioned disk approach, but the
later OS problem is certainly solved.
Thanks!
- don
1:15 p.m.
The picture has changed rather suddenly! Today I
stopped at my favorite
thrift shop and picked up an external SCSI drive and case for under $10.
Imagine my pleasure when it turned out to contain a Quantum Trailblazer
- the 800k one - loaded with MacOS 7.5.3 and numerous applications. I
also stuffed some more memory into the SE/30 so it seems a bit more
comfortable :)
Woah! Good deal!
Playing with different HDs in 32MB C610.
160 sleepy because of it and OS 8 on it (!!) but dangerously
becoming full.
230 ok but comfortable due to 4500rpm and 256K buffer.
530MB IBM somewhat better and silent but too small buffer (64K)
3.2GB better but very buzzy vibration due to poorly balanced, Quantum
is notorious for that.
2.1GB 7200rpm hd, made that mac more snappy
than what it really is and I love it. Minus side: whine noise. :-(
I see a trend: bigger buffer memory and faster rpm makes the
difference on Mac. Choice of OS is important especially on ram size
and secondly to cpu performance. For that SE/30, try
7.0.1 or 7.1 on it. 7.0.1 is free, 7.1 is bit harder to find but
it's out there. Took me some work to ferret that out.
Based on my experience,
For SE (FDHD) and all Mac series (68000) use 6.0.8 w/ full 4MB which
is Mac Plus and Mac classic, as well as old LC. Keep pcexhange
installed on all Macs w/ 1.44MB drive always, this makes moving data
so easy. Pc exhange is free downloadable, just find it but many OSes
has it by default.
Cheers,
Wizard
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