grieverheart
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I recently built a BlueSCSI v1 kit for my Quadra 840AV, and spent a whole day filling a 25GB drive. I built the image using dd and formatting with Drive Setup on the Quadra and I installed everything using Basilisk II (I have to say it's quite buggy and crashed a few times). I tested many of the stuff I installed on the Quadra, so I'm not sure what happened, but at some point the image I created was not big enough, so I created a new one and copied over the files using Basilisk II. Then, at some point I put the SD card in the BlueSCSI, and fired up the Quadra, but the icons of the games/applications where garbled, just like in this thread, and they wouldn't run, complaining that there is not enough memory and that 0K is needed, but 0K available. On the other hand, unstuffing applications on the Quadra and then running the applications worked fine, but then on the Basilisk II side, I get error -50 whenever I try to run these freshly installed applications. Also, on Basilisk, the garbled, not working applications work fine!
Could someone explain to me what's going wrong, why it's happening, and why it's fine on Basilisk?
On a sidenote, I also tried MacOS 8.1, and I have to say that I liked it more than 7.6.1 I had previously. Somehow in 8.1 I can also set the resolution to 1024x768, which was not possible on 7.6.1 with a VGA adapter I'm using. Now I'm wondering, at least on 7.6.1, Finder was slow with scrolling/updating the 25GB drive, although I think on 8.1 it was better. Would you recommend to instead format the big drive with HFS+? Finally, to avoid any problems, would you recommend I create a big drive with just SITs/images (transferred using Basilisk II) and have a separate drive with just a few games installed? Or perhaps keep the single big drive?
Could someone explain to me what's going wrong, why it's happening, and why it's fine on Basilisk?
On a sidenote, I also tried MacOS 8.1, and I have to say that I liked it more than 7.6.1 I had previously. Somehow in 8.1 I can also set the resolution to 1024x768, which was not possible on 7.6.1 with a VGA adapter I'm using. Now I'm wondering, at least on 7.6.1, Finder was slow with scrolling/updating the 25GB drive, although I think on 8.1 it was better. Would you recommend to instead format the big drive with HFS+? Finally, to avoid any problems, would you recommend I create a big drive with just SITs/images (transferred using Basilisk II) and have a separate drive with just a few games installed? Or perhaps keep the single big drive?
