Re: SCSI CompactFlash success

["Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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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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Hello.  Just to clarify, El Torito is for IDE CD-ROM's.  I have had lots of
fun trying to boot PC's from an IDE CD-ROM.  The SCSI card BIOS controls
whether or not one can boot from a SCSI CD-ROM on a PC.  I don't think a
IIgs can boot from an IDE CD-ROM, can it?  Though pricey at the time, I am
glad my IIgs has SCSI instead of MFM or RLL, with only hard drive support!!
    I am running Nero also.  Did you burn it as an ISO image?

Thank you,
Jason Whorton