About three years ago, I resurrected a Quadra 650. I replaced the defective hard drive and then put an operating system (7.5.3) on it using only my PC (it was my first Mac). I had created a boot disk using RAWRITE and burned a CD with System 7.5.3 and 7.5.5 plus several other necessities (OpenTransport, etc.). Following the instructions on Pickle's Low End Mac FAQ and Tyler Sable's 7.5.5 Zone, it was relatively painless.
Recently, I received an LC 520 with a dead hard drive. I received a replacement 50-pin SCSI drive (325MB) from a generous person on the LEM Swap List. He went through the trouble of testing the drive and then installing, an OS on it. I don't recall which version OS. I have the 'Install Me First CD' for the LC which contains System 7.1. I went through the install process for that CD, just to play around with it. Eventually, I would like to get 7.5.3 installed on the drive there to start with (from the CD I had created for the 'Project Quadra') and then go to 7.5.5. I can't find that darn boot floppy that I had originally made, so I recreated the boot disk using Apple's 7.5 Network Access Disk disk image. I can boot the 520 with the NAD disk. I can replace the System Folder on the hard drive with the System Folder of the NAD disk. I can boot the hard drive using the same System that the NAD had. There are a few problems though. When I insert the 'Install Me First CD' or my homemade 'System 7 Stuff' CD, neither will show on the Desktop. I know the CDs are good. I can actually boot to the 'Install Me First CD'. Question #1: Without using a paper clip (apparently there is a shortage of them in my house), how can I eject the CD? Question #2: How do I get the CDs to mount on the Desktop? Is there a CD driver missing from the NAD? If so, there is only 10K of free disk space to put one on there. The second problem that I have is that when I run Apple HD SC, it says there are no suitable SCSI drives found on the bus (or something like that). That's strange, I thought I just booted from the hard drive. Drive Setup doesn't seem to help either. Question #3: How can I initialize this drive (I forget the make and model, but I know it's not an Apple branded drive)? The crazy thing is that I did all of this before with only a PC. Now I have the assistance of the Quadra 650 (with is not Internet attached at this moment). I download the files on my PC. Unstuff the .bin. Copy the .sea to a floppy. Carry it to the Quadra. Have the Quadra tell me that it's a PC file. Copy the file to the Quadra's hard drive. Open the .sea. Eject the floppy. Insert a Mac formatted floppy. Copy the extract files to the Mac floppy. Eject that floppy. Carry it to the LC 520 (on the other side of the house). Yes, I could probably cut out a few steps if I just connected the Quadra to the ethernet... maybe I will. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to format this drive and get 7.5.3 on it? Thanks. Lonnie. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
