VMSZealot
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What configuration should I use for SCSI2SD (V5.1)? I'm having no luck at all with mine. This is the story.
With the old hard drive, my Mac was Sad Mac'ing on every boot. I tried fitting my spare hard disk, loose in the case, and it booted fine (so I don't think that the problem is with my SE/30). Feeling pleased with myself (and also very tired after a long day at work) I fitted it to my SE/30 - and put a mounting screw through the controller board on the hard drive. Which shouldn't even be possible, don't ask, I totally doofus'd.
Without another hard drive available, I bought a SCSI2SD, imaged an SD card, fitted it - and nothing. Turns out that if I boot from a floppy with Silverlining installed then the SD card mounts - so it's partially working, but it won't boot from it. Furthermore, if I try writing to the card (whilst booted from the floppy, of course), the copy soon hangs. If I try running something from the card then I quickly get a bus error.
What configuration is known 'good'? What size SD card? What brand? How did you write the SD card, with what tool and what OS, and what partitions? What configuration should I use for the SCSI2SD adaptor? How can I make my Mac happy again!?
For additional context, I have an LCIII+ as well, which boots very happily off its own hard drive - but has exactly the same problems with the SCSI2SD card that my SE/30 does.
@davidg5678 have you got any thoughts?
With the old hard drive, my Mac was Sad Mac'ing on every boot. I tried fitting my spare hard disk, loose in the case, and it booted fine (so I don't think that the problem is with my SE/30). Feeling pleased with myself (and also very tired after a long day at work) I fitted it to my SE/30 - and put a mounting screw through the controller board on the hard drive. Which shouldn't even be possible, don't ask, I totally doofus'd.
Without another hard drive available, I bought a SCSI2SD, imaged an SD card, fitted it - and nothing. Turns out that if I boot from a floppy with Silverlining installed then the SD card mounts - so it's partially working, but it won't boot from it. Furthermore, if I try writing to the card (whilst booted from the floppy, of course), the copy soon hangs. If I try running something from the card then I quickly get a bus error.
What configuration is known 'good'? What size SD card? What brand? How did you write the SD card, with what tool and what OS, and what partitions? What configuration should I use for the SCSI2SD adaptor? How can I make my Mac happy again!?
For additional context, I have an LCIII+ as well, which boots very happily off its own hard drive - but has exactly the same problems with the SCSI2SD card that my SE/30 does.
@davidg5678 have you got any thoughts?