I think it is much easier to make a startup disk using the Jazz disk than a
burned CD. Your main issue is the driver for the stock CD drive. It
requires the driver from the original Starmax CD, the "universal" Apple CD
driver v5.3.1, or a third party driver such as IntechUSA's CD Speedtools.
If you install a Mac OS onto a Jazz disk, you can simply put in the
appropriate CD driver into the extension folder in order to have the CD
drive function when you boot from the Jazz drive. You can also install
Norton Utilities and Diskwarrior and any other disk utilities into the Jazz
drive (make sure the version you install is compatable with the MacOS
version on the hard drive(s) in your Max). I have done this with a Zip
disk, and it works well. But beware, I find Zip disks to be no more
reliable than floppy disks. One of my Zip startup disks became corrupted
(bad media) and unusable (and unrepairable). I don't know how well Jazz
disks hold up.
David S.
--On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 9:14 PM -0700 Frank & Susan Malinowski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:45:35 -0700
>> Subject: Re: Emergency Start Up Disk
>> From: jrclark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Frank & Susan Malinowski9/20/01 6:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED][wrote]
>>
>>> I want to burn an emergency startup CD including OS 9X (probably 9.1).
>>> DFA, Disk Warrior and Norton. My problem is that my SM will not boot
>>> from the Disk Warrior or Norton CD. I think it has something to do with
>>> the CD drivers as I can boot from the original SM disk. Do I use the
>>> system from the Norton CD, the DW CD? I have the original 8X IDE CD and
>>> a SCSI Yamaha CDRW. How do I make a bootable emergency startup disk? Do
>>> I use Toast or DiscBurner?
>>> Right now I am covered by having partitions with systems and utilities
>>> on each but I just think its a good idea to have a bootable CD. If this
>>> is too much trouble, is it easier to set up an emergency Jaz disk? I
>>> can dedicate a disk for that purpose if necessary.
>>> System info: SM 4000MT w/G3, 160 MB RAM, OS 9.1, ATI card
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