Cutting Edge HD, trying to xfer 8600 to SE

[CJ_Miller]

Since I scored some old 68k music software, I put together a very nice condition SE to use it on. So far it works great. The hard drive I am using is a square enclosure which is branded "Cutting Edge". Seems cool enough, I installed 6.0.8 on there and started messing around with my old apps.

But my other Macs are more recent... Much of my other stuff for 68k resides in an archive on my 8600. Easiest thing I thought would be to connect the drive to my 8600 and copy things over. But the 8600 does not want to mount this external drive! It boots fine, and Drive Setup shows it as bus 1 number 1, but when I try to mount it I break into Macsbug: NQDCopyRgn+0004c. I guess this means that it has trouble reading from the drive. Any suggestions? I guess this is caused by some old-style formatting weirdness?

Seems like this would be a far easier route than trying to make old-style floppies in OS 9.1. I will press on and try to find an alternate disk tool, or try mounting a SCSI CD on the SE.

 

[CJ_Miller]

I dug out my funky square SCSI adaptor and tried accessing this drive from my 1400CS in OS 8.6. More weirdness! It mounts automatically, but keeps rebuilding desktop file over and over. Also, whereas the 8600 saw it as device number 1, the 1400 duplicates it. On bus 1 the same drive is listed from ID 0 through ID 7. Never seen anything like it. Also it is 30MB, which is surely the smallest hard drive I have ever used! I will probably try swapping it out for a slightly newer and much quieter model. Also, the apps I wanted to move are still on my 8600 so this exercise was not very practical.

 

[CJ_Miller]

So, the CE drive mounted on my 1400, but I could copy only small files to it without there being errors (-39). I opened the box and put a tested 1GB drive in it, freshly formatted to HFS standard. It mounts on my 8600 and I copy some files over. Then on the SE, it looks like I am going to boot normally for a few seconds and then I get a sad Mac screen. I turn off the drive and reboot, and it starts fine.

It seems that between the SE, and OS 9.1 on my 8600, that there are some significant differences with regards to either formatting or termination.

 

[CJ_Miller]

Funny that the same formatting yielded such a difference between OS 8.6 and 9.1. It appears that I have resolved this issue by using an older drive setup utility, the HD SC setup for A/UX. When I rebooted my powerbook it was back to a single mounted drive without the duplicates. And the SE boots fine now without the sad mac screen. I installed 6.0.8 from floppies and everything appears to work as expected. Thanks for the help, comrades!