There are utilities for Windows XP/2000 that will help you create Mac formatted 1.4 MB discs, but I haven't had to go that route. Make sure you format "Mac OS", because extended is for System 9 and up, I think.
First, either get a system 6.0.8 or 7 boot disk. Try Gamba's site, he's got wonderful System 6/7 resources. Anubis and Lido 7 come to mind, but I found Lido before Anubis and have been happy with it. Lido's free, and Anubis is not. http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/lido7.html You can get almost any old Seagate SCSI drive to work with Lido 7, a wonderful SCSI formatter/mounter. An 18 GB 10,000 RPM SCSI-2 has worked for me... among other 9 GB SCSI HDs but it has drawbacks. You have to dig up an old 68-pin to 50-pin converter, make sure the "motor start" option (usually labeled ME or MA) has a jumper enabling it, set your SCSI ID (1 or 2 should be fine), partition no bigger than 2.1 GB (I use 2,048,000 bytes and 3 partitions, leaving the rest unused) and ensure that the power supply you are using is dedicated. This means that while it WILL run in your classic computer, chances are it's voltage requirements are higher than the OEM ones of 40 MB and 80 MB (that has an RPM of 4300 or 5400) and after a while it will place demands that your 20 year old stock mac power supply can't meet. For leaving inside a compact Mac, if you treasure it, find a stock Apple HD 5400 RPM less than 1 GB. For any drives higher than 5400 RPM get an external SCSI HD case. Or use internally in a Mac II or Quadra :) On Nov 11, 10:56 pm, Charles Lenington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lrbarrios wrote: > > My story. I had a Quadra 650 given to me. 230MB hard drive was bad. > > Purchased a 730GB on eBay for $2. Installed drive. Used PC to > > download System 7 OS disk images and burn them to an HPFS formatted > > CD. Used RAWRITE or WinImage to put the 7.5 Network Access Disk boot > > image onto a 3.5" floppy. Booted floppy on Mac and mounted the CD (in > > the external SCSI CD drive). Ran the OS install from CD. Did the > > 7.5.3 and 7.5.5 updates and all of the Open Transport updates. I was > > online in no time. (You might want to also download a small FTP > > server program for the Mac so you can transfer files from your PC > > across your network.) At least that's what I remember. It was a > > couple of years ago. I was new to all of it and my head was spinning > > from all of the information I had to wade through. You might find > > this useful: > > >http://www.macfaq.org/software/macos.shtml#Q1.1.6 > >http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/ > > > Tip: When you're downloading stuff to burn to the CD, you might as > > well download everything you can think of that you might want to put > > on your new Mac. Burn it all to the CD. You can then use that CD as > > a good starting point if you have to start over at square one again, > > for some reason. > > > Lonnie. > > wow you got a 730 gig drive to work on a Quadra? > What drive partitioner are you using? > How many partitions did you end up with? > I didn't know someone had brought out a program that lets you use over 2 > gig drives/partitions in OS 7.5.x. > Huge : > ) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
