Re: Prodos like dos33dmp?

["Scott Johnson" <scomps@purplewire.nospam.org>]

The drive is the internal SCSI drive (250Mb I believe) from a Performa 575.
I also have a Mac SE with the network adapter.  Of course I have no boot
media for either of them.  The Performa will run OS8 which I do have on CD,
but alas the hard drive is required.



"John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net> wrote in message
news:DS_Bd.31850$5b5.13383@fe05.lga...
> What kind of drive are you needing for the Mac?
>
>
> "Scott Johnson" <scomps@purplewire.nospam.org> wrote in message
> news:zZVBd.2500$Xs6.22@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> > I did place an order for this with Syndicomm a couple weeks ago,
although
> I
> > never got a confirmation email.  It may just be an email glitch and
> they're
> > on their way.  If I don't hear anything in the next week or so I'll try
to
> > get ahold of them again.  On the other hand I was looking at this more
> like
> > the chicken/egg puzzle.  It had to get there somehow!  *grin*
> >
> > In any event what I was thinking is almost what dos33dmp did.   Transfer
> > whatever resident portions prodos leaves behind via a serial link.  That
> > should leave me with the MLI, command hooks etc essentially
"jumpstarting"
> a
> > live prodos.  As long as I was in basic at the time, get ADT on the
system
> > via the serial link and build the media from there?  I do have several
> > prodos images but i think they're the 5.25" images.  It shouldn't be too
> > hard to make one though, and I've got several emulators running that
could
> > provide a semi working environment.  What I don't know is much about the
> //c
> > plus.  If I do this from the //e emulators, will this be a problem?
> >
> > Worse yet, is my understanding of how prodos works so flawed that this
> will
> > never work in the first place?
> >
> > I do have an older mac, but unfortunately my son tried to "help" me one
> day
> > and attempted the removal of the scsi drive from the machine using the
> drive
> > heads (fragile) ribbon cable as the leverage point.  I'm sure you're all
> > wincing at this.  I know I did.  I've been watching ebay for one of
those
> > for quite some time as well.  As I understand it not just any SCSI drive
> > will do because there is a special apple format on them.
> >
> > Yes, not having a 5.25" drive has crippled me in this regard.  The //c
> plus
> > is a nice machine though.  I can see I'm going to have to spend some
time
> on
> > ebay and bulk up on my hardware pile again.
> >
> >
> > "Ed Eastman" <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message >
> > > I'll have to think about a virgin IIc+ scenario, I never even
considered
> > > that someone with an Apple II would not have a 5.25" drive.  :)
> >
> >
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