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Looking for anyone who has a Zulu SCSI and Quadra 700

macuserman

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Pretty much what the title says, I'm looking for any members who have a Zulu SCSI and a Quadra 700 and are willing to do some experimenting with it. Really just looking for anyone who has been able to get a reliable OS any version installed and working on Zulu SCSI in a Q700. If you have one and are willing to try it or have already I'd love to know your results, not looking for any other machines, I specifically need the Quadra 700 as I think I may have encountered a unique issue with it. Anyhow if you have a setup like this and are up for it please let me know!

Thanks!
 

macuserman

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I can have a go at this, if you like. Any specific OS version?
Nope doesn't really matter, if you can get anything to work reliably that would be a great data point for me. I would like 8.1 ultimately, but right now it's more of a test thing so 7.1, 7.5, 8.1 I mean really you pick. :) Greatly appreciate any insights from testing you do, it will be incredibly helpful!
 

cheesestraws

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I was trying to think of something that would be low-energy but useful for the evening, and now I have it! So we'll see. Fits-wise: am I looking for short-term or long-term instability (e.g. should I run benchmarks on it and go away, or will it be obvious if it's broken?)
 

macuserman

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I was trying to think of something that would be low-energy but useful for the evening, and now I have it! So we'll see. Fits-wise: am I looking for short-term or long-term instability (e.g. should I run benchmarks on it and go away, or will it be obvious if it's broken?)
For me, sometimes it boots fully, sometimes sad mac and chimes, sometimes mac bomb and buss error, or type 10 error, sometimes your startup disc is bad...., sometimes hangs loading extensions. If I use a spinning disc nice little quantum that is still working knock on wood both of my machines work aces. So you should know pretty quickly if you have the same problems I do or not. If it manages to boot and you can reboot and use it normally without issue a few times then you are waaay ahead of what I've experienced so far.
 

macuserman

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I've narrowed it down to 3 possibilities.

1. Both of my quadras are bad somehow. Doesn't make a lot of sense as I can resolve all issues by using a spinning disk, or even booting from an optical CD. But I suppose it's possible.
2. I am unlucky and my Zulu has some issue.
3. There is some compatibility issue specific to the Q700

That's really all I'm left with so I'm just trying to narrow it down. Hence my ask for an independent tester. Whatever you find will narrow things quite a bit.
 

macuserman

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The SD card is a fourth possibility, I'd note.
That is a possibility, I did purchase the SD card at the same time as the Zulu to avoid any potential card issues figuring that was my best shot at avoiding compatibility problems, but I have some others I can try as well.
 

cheesestraws

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OK, interesting results. OS installs didn't play very well. Got a decidedly interesting result, though: using Apple's HD SC Setup from 7.5 persisted in creating a 20 meg partition, despite the emulated drive being 800meg in size. Can you see if you can reproduce this?

I think we can probably say that the oddities you're seeing aren't just you at this point...
 

macuserman

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OK, interesting results. OS installs didn't play very well. Got a decidedly interesting result, though: using Apple's HD SC Setup from 7.5 persisted in creating a 20 meg partition, despite the emulated drive being 800meg in size. Can you see if you can reproduce this?

I think we can probably say that the oddities you're seeing aren't just you at this point...
How are you trying to do the install? Are you trying to do the install from scratch onto the Zulu using floppy install disk or optical CD? When I tried that for me it would hang part way through install everytime. I tried to end run around it by using premade .hda files I got from some other kind folks and encountered all the previously mentioned issues on boot trying to use the premade files.
 

macuserman

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I think we can probably say that the oddities you're seeing aren't just you at this point...
I hope I'm not alone I was starting to feel like I was losing my mind with this, I've put in a lot of time trying to get this to work over the past couple months here with breaks to let my frustration cool. Kept thinking if I just came back at it again with a cool head and fresh eyes but I just end up spending my whole evenings trying things and never get to where I want to be. At least not so far, have I mentioned I greatly appreciate you taking a run at this as a second set of data! Really super helpful.
 

cheesestraws

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I always do OS installs over the network from diskcopy images. Life is too short for removable media. I always remove them then lose them, see :)
 

macuserman

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I always do OS installs over the network from diskcopy images. Life is too short for removable media. I always remove them then lose them, see :)
Ah gotcha, I've never gotten around to setting that up. I have so many copies of unlabeled install discs in random places now I'm always making new ones because I can't find the old ones. :ROFLMAO:
 

macuserman

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I've got a few more things I want to try. Leave this one with me.
Hey cheesetraws, any chance you've had any luck with this? Not that it's urgent, I don't have time to look at it myself at the moment I'm busy prepping for my trip to the UK in a few days, but was just curious if you found anything. Cheers!
 
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