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Do you have Quicktime Musical Instruments installed? I'm not sure which OS that would require.

Sawtooth is limited 128GB on the IDE bus.

A boot volume/partition for OS9 should be no larger than 160 GB. Otherwise the partition will get corrupted. Are you using the ATA100 bus or the ATA133 bus on the MDD?

If you format the Zip drive with the oldest Zip Tools the a driver gets written on the disk and the OS extension is not needed for the disk to mount. Then you just copy your OS files to the disk. I've done it all the way up to 8.6.

1999? Isn't that a Quicksilver? First of all if you're using an internal IDE bus you're limited to 128GB in drive size. You can hook up a larger drive but it will show up as 128GB. If you want to run SATA I would install a PCI SATA card. That would free you up from the ATA limit, although an OS9...

You don't think it's a SCSI-1 SCSI-2 issue on the 1400? All the optical drives are 50 pin mini SCSI 2.

Thanks.

Have you ever used 640s with a PowerBook 1400? The SCSI on that machine doesn't seem quite up to regulation. I can get things to mount on a G3 Wallstreet, but the1400 won't cooperate at all.

Did you archive this somewhere? Macgarden? The link is dead.

Did you ever make any progress on this issue? I picked up a couple of 640 drives from Japan for cheap. Most Adaptec SCSI PCI cards were Mac Compatible. I have several.

I use the generic IDE/SATA ones on eBay with 2.5" SSDs or you can install 2 port or 4 port SATA PCI cards. The 2 port ones support OS9. You can flash cheaper PCI cards yourself if cost is a big issue. https://www.ebay.com/itm/314911045287 https://www.ebay.com/itm/264812274223...

There are two models. One with the G3 end and one with the smaller G4 end.