nymunariya
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I've had a 7600 for a little over a year now. It was a steal at 36€ and in great condition, only downside is it had very little ram, only standard vram the 604 processor, and a 300MB harddrive that was repartitioned to around 150MB (other partitions are MIA at the moment).
I've already spent more money upgrading the darn thing (NewTec G3, SCSI2SD v6, ram). I don't know if it's related, but I found out one of the ram slots don't work. I've moved the ram to another slot, and it's recognised. I haven't done any ram tests (is there even a mac equivelant to memtest?)
Anyway, I got a SCSI2SD. Typically I've been using two paritions (or two "separate" drives), one with 7.6(.1?) and one with 8.6. (I grew up with System 7, that's a classic look) But somehowever, the 7600 is never really happy with the SCSI2SD. There are two problems that keep happening:
Does that sound like a SCSI2SD configuration error? Or could I have bad ram?
I don't have a second SCSI HD or SCSI2SD to test. I have tested various SD cards from 4GB in size to 32GB, with partitions from 2GB (for HFS) up to 32GB (for HFS+). While the 7600 has a second SCSI bus (I believe) I could try, I do not have a second SCSI cable lying around.
I don't know if it's relevant, but as far as SCSI2SD formatting goes, while I can initialise in 7.6 (with patched drive setup) I cannot format them in 7 (at least not from internal SCSI HD).
I have also never been able to install 7 (or 8 ) to the SCSI2SD. 7 times out--even when booting from a 7.5.3 install cd. And I can't get a burned install cd of 8.5 to boot. So far my only success was copying over systems I prepared on Sheepshaver with 7.6 and 8.6. And as I discovered this weekend, my 8.6 install doesn't appear to have any AppleShare installed, so I can't connect to any other computers over the network. And trying a fresh install is currently a nightmare--but I might be able to make a fake CD install partition on the SCSI2SD.
Here's what I posted on reddit in January while I was having SCSI2SD setup woes.
Any thoughts or recommendations?
I've already spent more money upgrading the darn thing (NewTec G3, SCSI2SD v6, ram). I don't know if it's related, but I found out one of the ram slots don't work. I've moved the ram to another slot, and it's recognised. I haven't done any ram tests (is there even a mac equivelant to memtest?)
Anyway, I got a SCSI2SD. Typically I've been using two paritions (or two "separate" drives), one with 7.6(.1?) and one with 8.6. (I grew up with System 7, that's a classic look) But somehowever, the 7600 is never really happy with the SCSI2SD. There are two problems that keep happening:
- While I'm booted into 7.6 (SCSI2SD or internal HD) every now and then something on the 8.6 partition gets corrupted, preventing me from booting into it anymore. Over the weekend I got the error that the 8.6 system was not compatible with my system. Since I can't troubleshoot the HFS+ drive from 7, I have to plug the SCSI2SD into my Pismo, format the drive, and copy over everything again. One time, despite the drive being formatted as HFS+, all the files became visible on 7 as it somehow *lost* the HFS+ formatting. (it was amazing. If only I get 7 to read HFS+ more)
- When copying files to or from the internal HD to a SCSI2SD partition, the files get corrupted. Doesn't matter if I'm copying HFS to HFS or HFS to HFS+, programmes refuse to start, documents won't open.
Does that sound like a SCSI2SD configuration error? Or could I have bad ram?
I don't have a second SCSI HD or SCSI2SD to test. I have tested various SD cards from 4GB in size to 32GB, with partitions from 2GB (for HFS) up to 32GB (for HFS+). While the 7600 has a second SCSI bus (I believe) I could try, I do not have a second SCSI cable lying around.
I don't know if it's relevant, but as far as SCSI2SD formatting goes, while I can initialise in 7.6 (with patched drive setup) I cannot format them in 7 (at least not from internal SCSI HD).
I have also never been able to install 7 (or 8 ) to the SCSI2SD. 7 times out--even when booting from a 7.5.3 install cd. And I can't get a burned install cd of 8.5 to boot. So far my only success was copying over systems I prepared on Sheepshaver with 7.6 and 8.6. And as I discovered this weekend, my 8.6 install doesn't appear to have any AppleShare installed, so I can't connect to any other computers over the network. And trying a fresh install is currently a nightmare--but I might be able to make a fake CD install partition on the SCSI2SD.
Here's what I posted on reddit in January while I was having SCSI2SD setup woes.
Any thoughts or recommendations?