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You refer to 'your ROM' but I was never able to successfully extract my ROM for you. To whose ROM do you refer? Brian

Ah. Mine must be the actual backlit model then, because I have nothing in my ROM slot, and the screen and backlight share a single cable that plugs in directly to the mainboard.

I actually don't know if it's upgraded or not. I don't see a model number anywhere on the device. There's a notice on the bottom indicating that it hasn't yet been approved by the FCC and is not available for sale. (This is different than the common models that say that it's a demo unit and...

Oh mine is the backlit portable. So you're not interested in that rom then?

I also attempted to run the old vMac "CopyRom" rather than the mini vmac "CopyRoms" with similar results -- the application closes as soon as it opens, but yields no file on the disk.

My portable puts the hard drive to sleep after a few minutes of inactivity. Normally, that would be desired behavior for power management. However, the hard drive I'm using is a replacement 40MB standard scsi drve. (Quantum ProDrive LPS) I made an adapter cable. It works great... boots up...

So I ran the CopyRoms software on my Portable... It started up, created a file called "unknown.ROM" and quit. Upon further investigation, I discovered, however, that the size of the unknown.ROM file was only 4 bytes, hardly enough for a system rom. I was expecting it to be 128K. I've run it...

I have a portable that I'm in the process of restoring. I'm working on putting in a new hard drive (I have no idea what happened to the original!) but for now I have it booting off a System 7.5 Disk Tools disk. Once I have the thing up and running with the hard drive, what would I need to do?