Recent content by billynomates

Gotta be an SE/30 for me. The SE/30 is nicely expandable, in terms of memory and peripherals. Rubbishy capacitors let the machine down a bit, but once they're replaced it's hard to beat.  At the time these machines were new - there was no way I could justify the price of any Mac. In my very...

Oh, I see - Thanks for the info. I'll give that a go. Yes - it was recapped about a year ago... Should be all okay there. Seems to be very stable now the memory's sorted out.

Just wanted to post some experience I've had recently, and ask a quick question... I've been suffering from random icon corruption for some time on my SE/30. The memory on this machine has been expanded to 68MB - 4 x 1MB and 4 x 16MB. I've followed the gamba placement instructions (although if...

Okay, so here's the 'version' details (erm, can't see a version number), and performance graph for FWB's Hard Disk Performance Test... This is an SE/30, 68MB RAM, System 7.5.5. Notice the slight corruption in the HD icon. This appears to be pervasive, although is always sorted out by forcing a...

Well, that definitely didn't work! The Intech driver wouldn't allow this SE/30 to boot. Just the same chimes 'o' doom each time. Now back running the Anubis driver, and everything's hunky dory. Perhaps a little more stable than before. Have now mounted the device internally, and closed the...

Mine's now working pretty well - pleased with it. I'm going to try and replace the Anubis driver with a SpeedTools version as tt mentioned, as it looks like mine's a bit unstable in the writes department. Getting a lot of bus/address errors when installing / uncompressing stuff, although not on...

Looks like I've got to the bottom of this. Now working, although I still can't clean install System 7.5.3, so maybe something's wrong with my copy. Anyway, the key was to boot 7.5.3, install the Anubis driver, then low level format using Drive Setup 1.6. This took well over an hour for a 1GB...

Kind of thought as much. I guess the next step is to buy a new CF card that is a little quicker - these cards are a bit old. Thanks for all your help - much appreciated.

I've tried a few of them, but could get none of them to start. Maybe the files are busted / flattened. I'm also not sure what OS / version combination to use. 7.5.3 seems to work with Hard Disk Speedtools 3.3, whereas it won't run with 7.5.5. Anubis seems to run on either.

Still no cigar. A clean installation gets 'An error occurred while trying to complete the installation. Installation was cancelled, leaving your disk untouched.' after some minutes. It doesn't matter if I do a quick install or a custom install (with only the System Software). It goes through...

Only the one partition, and just a copied system folder from an older SCSI disk with a 7.5.3 and a 7.5.5 system folder on it. The folder is copied over un-blessed, and then blessed on the CF. The computer shows a happy mac (for less than a second) before playing the chimes of doom. Thanks for...

Very strange - the anubis software works, in that I can format the drive and copy the driver on to it, but again, when I try and boot I get a sad mac, and the codes indicating there's no partition map. Also the formatting / driver writing process seems a little flaky. Occasionally I'll get a...

The terminator is not set - the jumper is not there. I've also tried a range of SCSI ids, and a couple of different cards - this one (1GB) and a 32MB one, with no luck. I'll try the anubis software - thanks.

This is all very interesting. I have to say the price wasn't that bad. Anyway, some really good information here. I've taken delivery of my Aztec Monster and installed it in an SE/30. It seems that the hardware's okay. I can format and mount a 1GB CF card with HD Speed Tools 3.3, but after...

Phreakout (on these forums) did a very good job on my board. It's now working perfectly.