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Re: SCSI CompactFlash success
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In article <vb40klrm1r5oa1@corp.supernews.com>,
Jason Whorton <jason at microxl.com> wrote:
>Some combinations of old technology and new are hit and miss, so I am glad
>to hear of it. I once hooked up a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM tower and all 7
>drives were seen by the SCSI utility disk. I was pretty surprised.
If you go back 5 years or so, most x86 boxen at the time were unable to boot
from CD...a specification called El Torito was hammered out that had to be
implemented in the BIOS to enable booting from CD.
By comparison, I was able to make a bootable System 6.0.1 install CD that
works just fine on my ROM 01 (equipped with an Apple DMA SCSI card and a
Panasonic 4x CD-ROM drive). I wrote a little utility to create a partition
map with whatever sizes of ProDOS and/or HFS partitions you want, made
disk-image files of most of the install floppies, made a high-density boot
floppy with SCSI support (had to write to a shared directory on a Mac and
then use its floppy drive to write the disk), combined the images together
into a CD image, and burned it to a CD-R (Nero has no problems burning
foreign images). As long as the CD-ROM drive's ID is higher (?) than the
hard drive's ID, it'll boot from the CD. Somewhere around six or seven
drive icons show up in the Finder. Not bad for a machine introduced in
1986, is it? :-) (As an added bonus, the CD-R should be more durable than
floppies.)
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