John Rollins wrote:
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> Here's the message I just sent to ClassicMacs mailing list, I'm too lazy to
> type it all again ;-)
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> Just picked up a Mac II 5/80/two 800k FD's for $15(including a datatronics
> keyboard and an Apple mouse), with an ethernet card that everyone seemedd
> to think was a second video card... They said whenever they plugged a
> monitor into it, the computer shutdown. I hope it hasn't been destroyed...
> Anyways, it came with System 6.0.5, Word 4.0 and Illustrator 88(and tons of
> documents for both programs), all of which have already been deleted.
> Problem is that I'm having trouble getting System 7.0 to run. At first I
> couldn't get it to boot at all from the disk tools disk, then I finally
> installed it onto one of the three partitions and deleted the Sys6 system
> folder. Then it still woudn't boot. I took out the ethernet card and my PC
> Drive card(which I think may be bad). Now it tries two or three times
> minimum to boot from the hard drive, and usually refuses to boot from the
> floppy(although that may be fixed now, I'm not sure). The Apple HD SC Setup
> on the Disk Tools disk did not see the disk, so I went back to my PowerMac
> which had a copy of a hacked HD SC Setup I had downloaded. Back to the II,
> where the disk refused to boot. OK, I finally got it to boot from the HD,
> then I opened the floppy, and then the system folder. Finally the normal
> System Folder icon is back and it boots again. I launch the hacked HD SC
> Setup and it sees a disk at SCSI ID 6(I haven't changed that yet, I need to
> take the HD out and find the info on it), but it can't reformat. It says it
> can't prepare the disk for initialization, no particular reason is given...
> Current config right now is 5/80 with the two 800k drives, and the Radius
> Pivot interface. Any ideas? I'm stumped.
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Hi, I have had this problem, use the ontrack disk manager, fixes this
problem quick.
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Received on Tue Mar 24 1998 - 09:43:53 GMT