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Good to know, but I have no strong desire to run A/UX on my machine, and I don't really see a reason to. I would guess the RAM skip would be fine there, but I don't really know how deep it hooks in, so you might be right.

gglabs will sell it programmed with what I want though, saving the cost of the programmer.

That's basically my plan. Either the ROM-inator or the MACSIMM (https://gglabs.us/node/2019), I'll have to do some more poking into that. I'm not sure I really need a ROM disk anyways, but we'll see.

Gotcha. My SE/30 had 7.1Pro on it when I got it, and it's running much better with 7.5.5, but that could just be because it was a clean install not gummed up with who knows what extensions and whatnot.

Sounds like what I'd want is a SE/30 ROM with the RAM check patched out and stick with MODE32 than. Off topic, but what exactly is the difference between 7.1 and 7.5.x? I've poked around for a list of changes, but come up empty.

It's honestly not too bad, but it is something I wouldn't mind skipping in the future.

Yea, the RAM check is a patch than can be applied to any programmable ROM. From what I’ve read you can only run up to 7.1 without modification. Unless I’m missing something, the only real benefit to running 32-bit clean ROM is that you can run 7.6.1, but I’m not sure I need to? And I have 128...

Yea, if I changed the ROM, it’d be a device like that, but my understanding is that you flash a IIsi ROM to it, and that could require tweaks to the OS for it to work? I don’t really have much need for a ROM disk though. My big annoyance right now is boot time while it runs the RAM check.

I have an SE/30 that I'm working on, can someone help me understand the difference between MODE32 and swapping in a 32-bit clean ROM (I believe usually imaged from a IIsi)? According to a site I've found ( http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/os8_se30.html ), it seems like with a IIsi ROM in an...

I just remembered I took a DD image of the drive when I first got it. I just re-imaged the drive with that, and both internal and external CD drives mount the install disc just fine. So it seems that everything works with the exception of CD booting. Additionally, while I was booted into that...

I just gave this a shot, but when using the image of the IDE drive, the drive shows up as locked, and I have no idea how to resolve that.

I just tried that for both the internal and external CD SCSI IDs, and no change on either one. I never even saw the access light blink on the external drive.

I have an AppleCD 300 on the SE/30, and it didn't seem to boot off that either.

I just tried burning a disc of Mac OS 8.5, with the same result. I do have an IDE adapter, but I'd really like to figure out what's wrong with this computer that's preventing it from booting.

I don't have anything else I can try booting with it from, but it mounts on an older MacBook and also in my SE/30. That's really as far as I can test.

I recently picked up a Performa 6200CD that I'm working on. However, no matter what I do, I cannot get it to boot off of CD, so I'm unable to install Mac OS 8.6. Can anyone provide any advice here? I'm using a burned CD of 8.6, if it makes a difference. Also, if it matters, the CD drive it came...

I do not have those. I didn’t check continuity at all, but the traces seem fine. There was a lot of corrosion on one of the Sony chips which I believe has something to do with sound, but I wish there was some way to confirm that’s the issue.

Has anyone ever found or made a model of the hard drive sled for the Performa 6200 line (and maybe others?). Mine was very brittle plastic and kinda crumbled as I took it out, but it doesn't seem like it would be overly difficult to model. I'd take a crack at it myself, but I don't have any idea...

Okay, it turns out that I'm just an idiot. I had taken the shielding off the drive to clean it earlier, and I decided to test if it was working without putting everything back together and just stuck the drive in the case a few inches from a CRT. I shouldn't have been surprised that it was...

There is no visible physical damage to either side of the disk. I'm wondering if the heads could just be out of alignment or something?