Hi all,
Coming here for a last resort, because Google keeps giving me OSX advice; my System 7 mojo was really strong back in the day but I'm new to retro (as of a week ago) …
Color Classic Mystic with 1GB SCSI disk (also transplanted along with the motherboard), containing 7.5.5 copied into a few renamed system folders by the previous owner.
Worked fine for a few hours. But now it is always write-protected, even when rebooting with floppy boot disk.
I'm a bit afraid of installing FWB SCSI drivers because of the 2 ProDOS partitions for the IIe card.
But it looks like I can't do that anyway. Maybe I can format it but we're not that desperate yet. That can wait for my SCSI2SD.
Things I did successfully before it happened:
- about 10-20 reboots
- blessed a different system folder
- a few goes in 24-bit and 32-bit to play with CS ethernet versus Apple IIe Card
(I couldn't establish a network connection on classic or OT yet though, saw "ethernet" option in Control Panel but nothing in boot screen parade)
- moved folders around, cleaned up the desktop into a cleanup folder on the root
- renamed the HDD volume (already customised, but renamed again)
- turned off a few Extension Manager items to free up RAM
… this was the last thing I remember being able to change, now all prefs in everything are complaining they can't save.
One more thing: Several reboots ago I had no disk detected, I think due to the motherboard having one dodgy gold tooth.
It's been okay since inserting the motherboard twice now; but I'm very reluctant to keep removing it.
To be clear: Since my last motherboard reseat, I had a good couple of hours in read/write.
Haven't got anything external SCSI yet.
CK.
Coming here for a last resort, because Google keeps giving me OSX advice; my System 7 mojo was really strong back in the day but I'm new to retro (as of a week ago) …
Color Classic Mystic with 1GB SCSI disk (also transplanted along with the motherboard), containing 7.5.5 copied into a few renamed system folders by the previous owner.
Worked fine for a few hours. But now it is always write-protected, even when rebooting with floppy boot disk.
I'm a bit afraid of installing FWB SCSI drivers because of the 2 ProDOS partitions for the IIe card.
But it looks like I can't do that anyway. Maybe I can format it but we're not that desperate yet. That can wait for my SCSI2SD.
Things I did successfully before it happened:
- about 10-20 reboots
- blessed a different system folder
- a few goes in 24-bit and 32-bit to play with CS ethernet versus Apple IIe Card
(I couldn't establish a network connection on classic or OT yet though, saw "ethernet" option in Control Panel but nothing in boot screen parade)
- moved folders around, cleaned up the desktop into a cleanup folder on the root
- renamed the HDD volume (already customised, but renamed again)
- turned off a few Extension Manager items to free up RAM
… this was the last thing I remember being able to change, now all prefs in everything are complaining they can't save.
One more thing: Several reboots ago I had no disk detected, I think due to the motherboard having one dodgy gold tooth.
It's been okay since inserting the motherboard twice now; but I'm very reluctant to keep removing it.
To be clear: Since my last motherboard reseat, I had a good couple of hours in read/write.
Haven't got anything external SCSI yet.
CK.
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