IIci - can't boot from *any* CD-ROM?

[trag]

Yes, I methodically tried tried quite a few IDs. In the IIci, it was the only device on bus 0, and the CD-ROM was the only device on bus 1. So there should have been no conflict anyway.

As I was saying, I tried to run some diagnostics on the drive in a working system, and it (the drive) seems to have some hardware malfunction. So I am retiring it.

This is kind of unexpected since over the past few years since I'd used the drive, I'd say that nothing has happened to it that I am aware of.

What I did was juggle some data  around in my 8600 and take its original 4 GB drive for the IIci, it worked right away.

Thanks again for the help!

You're welcome.  My sympathies about the 15150N but then it must be about 20 years old by now.   Not totally unexpected.

 

[Scott Baret]

FYI: The IIci is the first Mac produced that will boot from CD-ROM. Earlier Macs won't, and the Classic I doesn't do it either.

 

[MJ313]

Just for the record, it's perfectly sensible to hook a drive for an old mac up to a new mac running OS 8 or 9 or whatever, ...

hehe... I love when we talk about 'new' macs running OS 8 or 9...