Iesca
Well-known member
Hello all,
I decided to try upgrading the system on my Mac Plus's external hard drive from 6.0.8 to 7.0.1. I used the Net Install of 7.0.1 and installed it to the drive over AppleShare from another Mac. It modified my original System unfortunately (I had renamed the System Folder in an attempt to avoid this), but regardless, when it finished, I restarted, and following the boot sequence the system began rebuilding the desktop for my external SCSI drive.
As the process approached its end, the dreaded bomb appeared: Address Error. Restarting with Extensions Disabled results in the same thing. However, I can cancel rebuilding the desktop, and everything hums along normally.
The Mac Plus has been upgraded to 4MB of RAM, and the external drive is a Seagate ST157N (identified by La Cie's Silverlining 5.31 as a Cirrus 45, though it resides in a GCC UltraDrive 40S enclosure). Silverlining has already mapped out the bad sectors on the drive, and I have run various memory tests using Snooper and MacTest.
I have not yet scoped out which version of the ROM is installed on the logic board, though I know that the main differences are with regards to external SCSI devices.
Should I just start over and try a clean install of 7.0.1? Or is this something I can remedy more simply? Again, disabling extensions does not affect anything.
I decided to try upgrading the system on my Mac Plus's external hard drive from 6.0.8 to 7.0.1. I used the Net Install of 7.0.1 and installed it to the drive over AppleShare from another Mac. It modified my original System unfortunately (I had renamed the System Folder in an attempt to avoid this), but regardless, when it finished, I restarted, and following the boot sequence the system began rebuilding the desktop for my external SCSI drive.
As the process approached its end, the dreaded bomb appeared: Address Error. Restarting with Extensions Disabled results in the same thing. However, I can cancel rebuilding the desktop, and everything hums along normally.
The Mac Plus has been upgraded to 4MB of RAM, and the external drive is a Seagate ST157N (identified by La Cie's Silverlining 5.31 as a Cirrus 45, though it resides in a GCC UltraDrive 40S enclosure). Silverlining has already mapped out the bad sectors on the drive, and I have run various memory tests using Snooper and MacTest.
I have not yet scoped out which version of the ROM is installed on the logic board, though I know that the main differences are with regards to external SCSI devices.
Should I just start over and try a clean install of 7.0.1? Or is this something I can remedy more simply? Again, disabling extensions does not affect anything.