3lectr1cPPC
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I got a RaSCSI recently, and finally got around to getting it running tonight but I'm having a few issues. I've set it up properly and I've been able to boot my PowerBook 145 from an emulated CD-ROM, but my 170 has not been working nearly as well.
It has a working SCSI hard drive, along with the only working floppy drive of the 2 and I needed to boot a disk tools disk somehow with the patched HD SC utility to format an emulated 500 something MB hard drive. None of my newer SCSI equipped PowerBooks will recognize the emulated HDD (although my 1400c will recognize an emulated CD-ROM) so I figured I give the 170 a go and here's what I get:
No matter what SCSI ID I mount the emulated HDD in (or even without anything attached at all) the 170 initializes my internal hard drive, shows a happy mac and locks up. Booting a patched disk tools disk I created gets further, but it locks up while trying to load the desktop. The floppy boots fine without the RaSCSI attached.
Booting with termination disables either results in the SCSI bus locking up or no drives being detected, depending on what IDs I set. The only difference between the 145 and 170 is that the 170 has an internal SCSI device, and the 145 is missing its drive.
I don't need to get the RaSCSI working with the PowerBook if I can figure out a good way of working with floppy images with the RaSCSI. It seems to emulate a drive but it doesn't support any of the common floppy image formats like .image for example.
Does anyone have any ideas? I must admit I'm no expert when it comes to SCSI so I apologize if what I'm doing wrong is obvious. Thanks!
It has a working SCSI hard drive, along with the only working floppy drive of the 2 and I needed to boot a disk tools disk somehow with the patched HD SC utility to format an emulated 500 something MB hard drive. None of my newer SCSI equipped PowerBooks will recognize the emulated HDD (although my 1400c will recognize an emulated CD-ROM) so I figured I give the 170 a go and here's what I get:
No matter what SCSI ID I mount the emulated HDD in (or even without anything attached at all) the 170 initializes my internal hard drive, shows a happy mac and locks up. Booting a patched disk tools disk I created gets further, but it locks up while trying to load the desktop. The floppy boots fine without the RaSCSI attached.
Booting with termination disables either results in the SCSI bus locking up or no drives being detected, depending on what IDs I set. The only difference between the 145 and 170 is that the 170 has an internal SCSI device, and the 145 is missing its drive.
I don't need to get the RaSCSI working with the PowerBook if I can figure out a good way of working with floppy images with the RaSCSI. It seems to emulate a drive but it doesn't support any of the common floppy image formats like .image for example.
Does anyone have any ideas? I must admit I'm no expert when it comes to SCSI so I apologize if what I'm doing wrong is obvious. Thanks!