Hey, all... Newbie to Supermacs here.
I just bought a Supermac S900/150 at a garage sale for $4. The guy said it worked, it didn't, I vacuumed all the spiders and dirt out of it and now it does work after all.
It had 8.0 on it and the CD-rom drive didn't work. I hooked up an external cd-rom drive and installed 9.1 on it, thinking (wrongly) that it was a G3 and not a 604. Now I know the facts, I'm plodding on anyway.
I see it has 2 hard drives, but only one 2GB drive shows up on the desktop. And I still can't get the CD-rom drive to work. I haven't taken it out of the case yet to see what kind it is, but it's probably a SCSI. And there's only 80 MB RAM.
If the cdrom spins the disc, then the right driver should make it work. try:
http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-tiscali/thinkdifferent/english/patchs/appledvddriverpatch.html
for a driver that ought to work...
As for RAM, 9.1 would be a lot more comfortable with another 128mb stick - which was going for about $25, although I have not priced it recently.
I've gotten this far after several hours and want to know: is it worth it?
This is my first Mac clone. Should I pay for and install a new CD-rom drive and more RAM and let my 14-year-old (now using a 7100/66) have it for word-processing and "Master of Orion"? Should I upgrade the processor, too?
They're sturdy machines, but getting a little long in the tooth.... For a $30 investment, your 14 year old ought to get a kick out of the upgraded machine. If you consider upgrading the processor, then you're spending money that might be used better as an investment in a machine with a faster system bus and memory subsytem, or better OSX compatibility. (or if you're like my wife - more yard sale-ing ;)
Or should I keep scouring garage sales for good Mac deals?
And what's with that 2nd hard drive? Shouldn't it show up on the desktop? Probably dead, hunh? Darn!
Does it spin up? Are the power and scsi connectors firmly in place after the vacuuming? You might try a utility called scsi-probe to see if the computer is able to see it on the scsi bus. It might need to be formatted with OS9 compatible drivers - Apple's Drive setup works with many third party drives......
I should add I'm living with a Mac-Hostile Hubby. All current Macs are
garage sale purchases I've fixed up in a blundering, learn-by-doing kind of
way.
I'm using a G3/266 Beige Minitower, you already heard about the 7100, and my youngest has a Mac Plus (he'd sure like to get his hands on the 7100).
Thanks for any help you can offer...
Bonnie
tom
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