zarky
Active member
Ive got a beat up Quadra 605 that has a dead HDD and a presumed dead FDD. The FDD functions mechanically, and tries to seek, but fails to boot from any floppy i make for it. (just get the ? or X folder)
So I'm trying to see if i can boot it off of a CD via SCSI. I think it's possible but I haven't had any success with my third party SCSD cd drives.
I have tried 7.1 Golden master, 7.5.3, and 8.1 Retail images, burned both to 700mb sony CD-R, and TDK CD-RW.
I've tried booting with everything but the SCSI CD unplugged, ive tried passing the CMD+OPT+SHIFT
DEL commands, I've tried several SCSI IDs (0, 3, 6, etc)
All I get is the ? folder.
Am I missing something? Or can this machine not boot from CD?
So I'm trying to see if i can boot it off of a CD via SCSI. I think it's possible but I haven't had any success with my third party SCSD cd drives.
I have tried 7.1 Golden master, 7.5.3, and 8.1 Retail images, burned both to 700mb sony CD-R, and TDK CD-RW.
I've tried booting with everything but the SCSI CD unplugged, ive tried passing the CMD+OPT+SHIFT
DEL commands, I've tried several SCSI IDs (0, 3, 6, etc)
All I get is the ? folder.
Am I missing something? Or can this machine not boot from CD?