Van, Thanks for the tips, everyone has given me very good ideas, I'll put them to work.
Thanks Abel On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Egamba2/> > > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
