Re: OT: Mac Plus and 20SC

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Wayne Stewart (waynes@telus.dotnet) wrote:


: George Parada wrote:
: > It works with other macs as a hard drive but I didn't try
: > booting from it.
: > I know it was used with other Plus and it booted from it.

: If it works with another Mac then there likely isn't a
: hardware problem with the drive. Which could mean the
: Mac Plus isn't recognizing SCSI.
: The other, more likely possibility is a system folder that
: isn't blessed. The only way to check for that is look at the
: system folder and see if it looks like a plain folder or if
: it has an icon on it.
: If you know someone with a Mac that has a floppy drive, you
: could ask them to make you an 800k boot floppy. That would
: let you see if the hard drive was being recognized or not.
: They can download a disk image from Apples site.

If your other older machine is running an OS that will work on the Mac
Plus, try renaming the System Folder on the HD (assuming there is one),
then just copying the entire system folder from a working HD to the drive
you're working with.  That way you'll know you're moving a working system.
 It may not be an optimal install for the plus, but if it at least tries
to boot then you'll know you have a working SCSI chain!

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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