Burgertrench
Well-known member
I'm in the process of setting up a new to me Mac Plus for regular use. I have an external SCSI2SD v5, which I've set up according to the instructions for System 6.0.8 at savagetaylor.com. The machine booted fine with the basic 2GB image. I am hoping to use AppleTalk with my Asante Ethernet bridge to get files on to this Mac, but I don't have the network drivers installed, and I don't have any other Mac with a working floppy drive to copy them over. I plugged the SCSI2SD into my Performa 5400 running MacOS 8.6 and copied the installer across, but after that the Mac Plus no longer saw this as a bootable drive. I suspect the newer Mac automatically updated the disk drivers - does anyone know if this is the case, and if there is a way around it? I will be re-imaging the SD card using DD to make it bootable again, but If I can't use this drive with the Performa, I do have an SE/30 running 7.5.5, would this leave the disk in a format still compatible with the Plus? I'm trying to avoid having to update the disk image and re-burn it to the SD card each time I need to load files over.