Re: HDs on MacIIsi (HFS vs HFS+)

2004-03-06 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
At 19:18 -0800 05/03/04, J.S. Garrison wrote: ... That 6100 probably uses HFS+. That started with OS 8. IT may be why the hard drive from the IIsi won't mount on the desktop. Hi, I'm the one who started this thread. You probably jumped in the discussion later in the thread and might not have rea

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-05 Thread Scott Holder
J.S. Garrison wrote: That 6100 probably uses HFS+. That started with OS 8. IT may be why the hard drive from the IIsi won't mount on the desktop. I did this tonight with a spiffy little Apple External hard disk. It stayed invisible connected to a PPC 6360, but mounted and allowed access with a Per

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-05 Thread J.S. Garrison
on 3/4/04 10:28 PM, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:04:50PM -0800, J.S. Garrison wrote: >> The 6100 uses a differing file system than the IIsi. For best results you'll >> need to put the drive into the IIsi and format it, then add your operating

Re: Creating startup floppies on a G3/OS 9.2.2 (was: HDs on MacIIsi)

2004-03-05 Thread Darren
Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: G3/300 beige running OS 9.2.2, a 1.4 floppy inserted on the internal floppy drive. As for the disk image, it is a System 6.0.7 installer, but I am not sure it is for a 800 or 1.4 disk. I'll have to check. And I want to install the system into the floppy in the drive. Wh

Re: Creating startup floppies on a G3/OS 9.2.2 (was: HDs on MacIIsi)

2004-03-05 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
At 22:11 +1100 05/03/04, Darren wrote: Under 9.1, 1.44mb Sys6 can be made using Diskcopy 4. Just open and close the system folder to bless it. Diskcopy4 will also make 800k under 9.1 provided a 800k floppy is inserted. You would have to drop back to OS7.5.x to create 400k disks. Without knowing w

Re: Creating startup floppies on a G3/OS 9.2.2 (was: HDs on MacIIsi)

2004-03-05 Thread Darren
Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- "Haroldo Mauro Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I made a mistake on my last message. What happens is when I try to install System 6 on a floppy -- from an installer disk image on the G3 OS 9.2.2 -- I get a message saying I don't have the proper software for installation

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-05 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
At 02:42 -0500 05/03/04, Jim Foster wrote: On 4-Mar-04, at 11:24 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: I connected them to a PowerMac 6100 and formated both in Mac OS Standard format. Having read a few more of the replies to your original message, I tend to agree with Jeff Garrison that you really ought

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-05 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
Thank very much to all who responded. I finally got the 520M disk to work as the IIsi's internal drive. I think the problem was that I formatted it with a recent version of the Drive Setup before installing it into the IIsi. I put it into a external cabinet; connected it to the 6100; formatted i

Re: Creating startup floppies on a G3/OS 9.2.2 (was: HDs on MacIIsi)

2004-03-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- "Haroldo Mauro Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made a mistake on my last message. What happens is > when I try to > install System 6 on a floppy -- from an installer > disk image on the > G3 OS 9.2.2 -- I get a message saying I don't have > the proper software for installation. There's a

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-04 Thread Jim Foster
On 4-Mar-04, at 11:24 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: I connected them to a PowerMac 6100 and formated both in Mac OS Standard format. Having read a few more of the replies to your original message, I tend to agree with Jeff Garrison that you really ought to try to initialize these drives in the M

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-04 Thread Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:04:50PM -0800, J.S. Garrison wrote: > The 6100 uses a differing file system than the IIsi. For best results you'll > need to put the drive into the IIsi and format it, then add your operating > system. Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean here. As far as I know,

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-04 Thread J.S. Garrison
on 3/4/04 8:24 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I need help with the following: > > I got these two external SCSI Hard Disks yesterday, with 520M and 2G > capacity. I connected them to a PowerMac 6100 and formated both in > Mac OS Standard format. Then I tried to make them

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-04 Thread Bryan Kattwinkel
on 3/4/04 3:30 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: >...I connected them to a PowerMac 6100 and formated both in >Mac OS Standard format. Then I tried to make them work on a Mac IIsi. When you format a drive on a PowerMac, using Drive Setup for example, you may get a disk driver that is for PowerMacs o

Creating startup floppies on a G3/OS 9.2.2 (was: HDs on MacIIsi)

2004-03-04 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
I made a mistake on my last message. What happens is when I try to install System 6 on a floppy -- from an installer disk image on the G3 OS 9.2.2 -- I get a message saying I don't have the proper software for installation. Then, if I drag the System Folder to the floppy, it copies, but looses

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-04 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
At 14:48 -0500 04/03/04, Jim Foster wrote: At one point, Apple made both a CD and a "pile of diskettes" version of this package available for purchase from them. The diskette package has a Disk Tools disk and that's the way I would get an older Mac with an empty hard drive to boot up. So you mig

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-04 Thread Jim Foster
On 4-Mar-04, at 1:51 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: I am puzzled by this: if I started with a 6.0.7, startup disk, where did the information about PowerPC came from, since there was no PowerPC then? Where are these messages stored? Good question. Not sure I can help with that. FYI, my practice ha

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-04 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
At 11:42 -0500 04/03/04, Jim Foster wrote: On 4-Mar-04, at 11:24 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: Hi, I need help with the following: I started the computer from a floppy. It didn't see the internal HD. I tried several times. It acknowledged the presence of another "large volume connected" by prese

Re: HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-04 Thread Jim Foster
On 4-Mar-04, at 11:24 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: Hi, I need help with the following: I started the computer from a floppy. It didn't see the internal HD. I tried several times. It acknowledged the presence of another "large volume connected" by presenting me a message that said I needed a 68

HDs on MacIIsi

2004-03-04 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
Hi, I need help with the following: I got these two external SCSI Hard Disks yesterday, with 520M and 2G capacity. I connected them to a PowerMac 6100 and formated both in Mac OS Standard format. Then I tried to make them work on a Mac IIsi. I got the 520 disk out of the external cabinet, remov