Well, I'm actually just trying to boot of a 1Gb SCSI disk in a Quadra 605, which has a 33Mhz 68040 from a Quadra 630. Péter posted a link earlier to the modified Disk Tools disk. I'm going to try this later today. Thanks for all the info everyone! Now I'm wondering, the modified Disk Tools only has a 68040, and a PPC version, what about my Duo 230 in my DuoDock? (It's a 68030) I'd like to get the 1.42Gb disk that I installed formatted and mounted. Would formatting it in OS9 from my Minitower work?
Cyrus Griffin -------------------- Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ On May 3, 2009, at 1:24 PM, David Ryskalczyk wrote: > > I don't recomment formatting disks with Hard Disk Toolkit. It tends to > be difficult to recover data if something goes wrong (for me, at > least). I've used a patched Drive Setup / Apple HD SC Setup with much > better results. See > <http://lowendmac.com/sable/07/mac-drive-setup-patch.html> for details > and downloads. Keep in mind that for a Mac Portable, you MUST use > Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.1 (which comes with System 7.0.1) or you'll have > crashes on sleep <http://lowendmac.com/pb/macintosh-portable.html>. > > HFS+ requires Mac OS 8.1. An update from 8.0 to 8.1 is available. A > PPC machine is required to boot from HFS+ though. Also, be careful > with older disk utilities, as they can damage HFS+ drives. > Partitioning is quite easy once you get around to doing it. Remember > that there is a 2GB volume size limit on HFS (standard) volumes > though, and you can't have too many mounted volumes at once (I think > the limit is like 20). So watch out. > > Hope this helps. From my experience, I recommend staying far away > from HDT. > > --Dave > > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Doug McNutt wrote: >>> At 10:12 -0700 5/3/09, Clark Martin wrote: >>>> Disk First Aid won't see it unless it's already formatted. I >>>> don't know >>>> what "Disk Tool's HD setup" is. >>> >>> HD SC Setup is Apple's tool for formatting disks. It checked for >>> special codes in Apple >> > branded disks before it would even try to work. The patch offered >> removes that check >> > and I don't think Apple minds any more. >>> >>> I have been using CD-ROM ToolKit from FWB Software for all of my >>> Mac OS (classic) disks >>> including systems down to OS 7.1. The company is out of business >>> but >> about 4 years ago I >>> got an upgraded copy from a local dealer who at least implied >>> that he >> was allowed to give >>> it away. There have been complaints about the toolkit but I have >>> never >> had a problem. >>> It's possible that there were problems with Norton's software. >> >> CD-ROM ToolKit is for CD-ROMS, it was something like FWB Harddisk >> Toolkit that worked with HDs. >> >>> >>> For really older systems partitioning disks can save space. The >>> problem is that the >>> minimum block size gets too big when the file system can only >>> address >> 15 bits - a >>> Pascal int - of blocks. HFS+ is much better but only works >>> beginning in >> something >>> like OS 8.5. The FWB toolkit handles formatting easily but you >>> have to >> set up partitions >>> while overall formatting is being done. >> >> I believe with HFS (non-plus), aka Standard the maximum number of >> blocks >> is 65, 536, a 16 bit value, in any programming language. HFS+, Mac >> OS >> Extended) was first supported in OS 8.1. PPC machines can boot from >> HFS+. 68040 machines can access HFS+ but they cannot boot from it. >> >> >> >> -- >> Clark Martin >> Redwood City, CA, USA >> Macintosh / Internet Consulting >> >> "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
