Having problems installing A/UX

[coolerguy]

Hey all, i've been screwing around with installing A/UX on my Quadra 700, but for some reason i keep getting SCSI read errors, which i seem to have traced to the AppleCD 300i drive I am using... I think this may be because the drive has become unaligned and has problems reading a CD-R... I also have 5 AppleCD 600is, which should be supported by the cd driver on the boot floppy and in the installer, but apparently isn't... Well, if i boot the machine with another drive with the CDROM-Hack-driver, the drive mounts all cds, but not the A/UX 3.0.1 one... Both cd-rs and stamped discs... Any idea what i can do?

I have actually had it installed on this machine before, but cant remember which drive i used that time... but i think it may have been the 300i, but that, while it does mount the disc, doesn't like to read the whole disk (i get loads of read errors from the scsi device scrolling down the screen), which results in the installation being botched up...

Help?

 

[ChristTrekker]

First, make sure it is a CD-R, not a CD-RW. Also, burn at a slow speed. I've heard that both of these can help the older drives read these newer disks.

 

[coolerguy]

it is a CD-R, and i've tried burning it at the slowest speed the writer lets me (4x), but with the same errors... also, its the same disc i used the last time... would it be possible to maybe get the information from the disk onto a scsi HD and let it install from that? ideas on imaging the entire volume, not just the mac part of the disk?

 

[macintoshme]

would it be possible to maybe get the information from the disk onto a scsi HD and let it install from that? ideas on imaging the entire volume, not just the mac part of the disk?

Ah a man after my own heart; I despise optical media. Personally, I format it using os X and install os 9 drivers, up to a certain point, there was nothing in place to stop you from copying cds to hds and booting them. Do that, then boot the hd, and install to another.

PM me if you have any trouble. I have not done this myself. But I might lend some insight.

FYI, if you have a SCSI zip, it is ur best friend.

 

[Phreakinus]

optical media rocks

 

[wthww]

Hi! My suggestion is to use an apple CDrom extension from a newer OS, like 7.5 or higher. anything from 7.5-7.6.

//wthww