Recent content by pondosinatra

Just ran the Installer, restarted and set the Networking options to use Ethertalk, told it to use DHCP and that was it. The one issue I had is that when you run the Installer, it will only install from the floppy. And the floppy has to be named exactly like it wants - complete with French...

I got it hooked up to the Internet - verified my Asante card is running at 100Mbps. Then I installed iCab 3.0.5 which is the PPC version supported under 8.6 and surfed the web! Note, while everything else is fairly snappy, surfing the web is slooooow. Even slower than my 040 based Color...

Hmmmm.....it crashes when I run System Profiler, and check on Devices. This is a known problem with the Turbo 601, and there are patches for both OS 8 and OS 8.5. Anyone have a solution for it not crashing on OS 8.6?

I have the IIfx poster :) It just lists all the revolutionary features of the motherboard... Ie. "The 40-Megahertz Motorola 68030 microprocessor used in the Apple Macintosh IIfx is the fastest microprocessor available in a personal computer. It's fast. Darn fast. We'd even go so far as to...

Success!

Ya, all I'd have to do is simply copy the System folder over correct? PM me and I'll give you my info. Thx

I don't believe I slagged them at all. Just pointed out that their success rate was 50% (from someone who stated they've done dozens of repairs) - and one of the boards was NOS which was pristine, not some old crappy garage sale SE/30... They also did some newer model boards without issues, so...

Don't suppose if I send you a flash card you could do that for me????

Ah crap. Maybe it's not meant to be. It gets to about 3 mins left in the install and then hangs. I've tried it twice now and each time it hangs at the same spot.

Ok, this is a dumb question, but the instructions say to make a copy of the System folder. How do I do that? I can select Copy. But I can never Paste it anywhere as that option is grayed out.

With the Hex Find.....is there just one instance you replace? Or do you do a replace all?

Thanks. I managed to get it up to 8.5.1. The trick was the Sonnet 8.5 enabler didn't work when used as a boot disc, but by just copying off the enabler and PPC ID into the System folder it allowed the 8.5 setup to proceed. Next up to try 8.6 :)

I tested both a SanDisk (I'm guessing Gen 1, the Blue colored ones), and a Sandisk Ultra II 15MB/s card. They were formatted using Anubis 3.x.

Well I got it all working, have OS 8.1 installed. But my current roadblock is getting OS 8.5 on it. I know I had it running OS 8.5.1 before my hard drive crashed so many months ago. I need to figure out how to get there again. I tried Sonnet's PPC 8.5 enabler boot floppy, but it comes up...

So the results on the supposed fast flash card were actually slightly worse. But statistically the same. The conclusion at least to me being that you're limited by the speed of the IIci's SCSI bus. It doesn't matter if you put faster cards in or not.