equill
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My recently-acquired CC had a dead 80MB HDD. I transferred the 250MB HDD from an LC III acquired at the same time as the CC in order to get the cleaned-up (including the MLB) and upgraded (10MB RAM, 512kB VRAM, Asanté NIC) CC working. I replaced (because the software will not allow the Sharing Setup fields to be left blank after there have been entries) the former owner's user-name, machine name and password with my own so as to use my LAN for software transfers, if needed, and archived the HDD's content to an external HDD for the moment. I then erased and reformatted the HDD, installing Silverlining 5.8.3 drivers so that I could install System '7.1.3', which I also archived off for safety.
I then transferred the 250MB drive to a cleaned-up Classic (4MB) that had arrived in the same bunch. A 68000 processor, however, cannot cope with 32-bit addressing, Appearance CDEV and just about anything that you can think of but the off switch, but that story appears elsewhere. So I took a 1GB HDD from a Quadra 605 that was lounging about, and formatted and partitioned the HDD as 300MB/700MB in the CC before transferring the archived installation of 7.1.3 from the external HDD to the 300MB partition. For divers reasons I then upgraded the CC from 7.1.3 to 7.5 to 7.5.3 to 7.5.5, with OT 1.1.1/2, using legit. Install CDs all the way.
Now the crunch. Under 7.5.5 the CC began complaining at startup that 'there were too many open connections for Network Time to open another'. OK. A pain, but presumably soluble. Then, at the first opening of Chooser to use the LAN, a persistent connection window inviting connection to 'Shared disk Quantum 250MB', which, you will recall, had gone to live in the Classic, and never had had an ethernet connection to the LAN or the CC. No number of Cancel or Connect selections got rid of the window. Only Force Quit of Chooser abolished it, after which operation of the CC was normal, if slow, as befits 7.5.5 on a CC.
If you have survived this far, the question now is: Have you an inspired guess or a programmer's knowledge why this might occur? Not trashing and reinstalling every piece of filesharing and networking software (including OT 1.1.1 and 1.1.2), deletion of preferences, PRAM clearing nor MLB resetting has removed this pesky window. My guess is that there is a remnant record somewhere of a past choice in Chooser (a checkbox) to connect automatically at startup to the mythical Quantum 250MB shared disk. Where is that choice stored? I wish to stomp firmly on it. Is the relevant file invisible? NUM FastFind will show invisible files only if one knows their names to begin with, not invisible files as a class.
I could, of course, do a scorched-earth reformat and re-install, but my curiosity is aroused. Short of interference from the Mothership, all suggestions will be entertained, even if only briefly. Ta.
de
I then transferred the 250MB drive to a cleaned-up Classic (4MB) that had arrived in the same bunch. A 68000 processor, however, cannot cope with 32-bit addressing, Appearance CDEV and just about anything that you can think of but the off switch, but that story appears elsewhere. So I took a 1GB HDD from a Quadra 605 that was lounging about, and formatted and partitioned the HDD as 300MB/700MB in the CC before transferring the archived installation of 7.1.3 from the external HDD to the 300MB partition. For divers reasons I then upgraded the CC from 7.1.3 to 7.5 to 7.5.3 to 7.5.5, with OT 1.1.1/2, using legit. Install CDs all the way.
Now the crunch. Under 7.5.5 the CC began complaining at startup that 'there were too many open connections for Network Time to open another'. OK. A pain, but presumably soluble. Then, at the first opening of Chooser to use the LAN, a persistent connection window inviting connection to 'Shared disk Quantum 250MB', which, you will recall, had gone to live in the Classic, and never had had an ethernet connection to the LAN or the CC. No number of Cancel or Connect selections got rid of the window. Only Force Quit of Chooser abolished it, after which operation of the CC was normal, if slow, as befits 7.5.5 on a CC.
If you have survived this far, the question now is: Have you an inspired guess or a programmer's knowledge why this might occur? Not trashing and reinstalling every piece of filesharing and networking software (including OT 1.1.1 and 1.1.2), deletion of preferences, PRAM clearing nor MLB resetting has removed this pesky window. My guess is that there is a remnant record somewhere of a past choice in Chooser (a checkbox) to connect automatically at startup to the mythical Quantum 250MB shared disk. Where is that choice stored? I wish to stomp firmly on it. Is the relevant file invisible? NUM FastFind will show invisible files only if one knows their names to begin with, not invisible files as a class.
I could, of course, do a scorched-earth reformat and re-install, but my curiosity is aroused. Short of interference from the Mothership, all suggestions will be entertained, even if only briefly. Ta.
de