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OS 9.1 freezing when copying from usb

RadRacer203

RadRacer203

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Working on my Mac clone right now, finally got OS 9.1 installed and everything seems to be working fine. But I'm running into a problem now. USB works perfectly fine, sees the drives and all, but it seems like every time I try to copy anything from the flash drive onto the hard drive, the computer locks up completely about halfway through and I have to do a hard reset. I'm hitting a wall, does anyone have any suggestions?
 
Is the flash drive working on anything else old? I wonder if it's a too large gb partition so the Mac freaks out or something? I know they do weird things with stuff like that, but not sure it would do it while copying.
 
Johnnya101 said:
Is the flash drive working on anything else old? I wonder if it's a too large gb partition so the Mac freaks out or something? I know they do weird things with stuff like that, but not sure it would do it while copying.
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Same drive works perfectly on my Powermac 6500, basically the exact same specs as this
 
Format the drive under OS 9; had a similar thing a while back got me stumped until I did this. Move the USB PCI card to another slot if you can.
 
Well, that didn't do anything unfortunately. The card I'm using is a USB 2.0/Firewire combo out of my g3 tower, could this be an issue?
 
Tried other cards, including the one that worked perfectly in my Powermac 6500. The one out of the 6500 got further before it did the same thing
 
Johnnya101 said:
Well, you do mention it's a clone... Wonder if that has anything to do with it? Or maybe a bad OS?
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I mean maybe, but it should be fully compatible. I don't think it's the OS, it's a fresh install of 9.1. Could it be that I installed the OS onto the drive on my Powermac and then swapped the drive?
 
Not sure, it could be. Not sure how finicky the later Mac os is. If you don't have anything installed, I'd give it a go just to rule it out.
 
Ah, I may have found a problem. OS 8.1 is the last officially supported version... That might be the issue... Does 8.x have usb support at all?
 
I don't believe so. I think there may be support for a FireWire card, but depends on the card. If there is USB support, it will only be with a specific card.
 
Ok cool, I do know the chipset on the card should be compatible, given it works perfectly in my Powermac 6500 that's notoriously picky
 
LaPorta said:
The built-in USB drivers should run the card,
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Does retail 8.1 have USB drivers? I thought that became a part of the base load in 8.5. The revision A iMac G3/233 is the only 8.1 system that had both USB and 8.1.

The iMac's copy of 8.1 is difficult/annoying to install on anything that's not an iMac G3, although the restore image should theoretically run fine on basically any beige PPC Mac.
 
I was thinking that you could copy the extensions from the iMac 8.1 if it was needed. I thought regular 8.1 had them too, though I could always be wrong.
 
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