Internal BlueSCSI and Wallstreet

[AC Rempt]

I burn CDs and DVD on my M1 Mac Mini pretty often. Media can be a problem, it's good to try different brands. Here's the procedure I use to burn ISOs from the Internet:
Insert the media into the drive.
When prompted by the Finder, click "Ignore". (You do not want "Open in Finder", as this is a way to burn files but not images.)
Find the downloaded ISO file in the Finder, right click on it and select "Burn" from the drop down menu.
When the disk is written out it should eject automatically, and it should be bootable.

When I tried that, it didn't work. No burning. I'll definitely try again later, and I did't realize it just burned the file and not the image. Thanks for this.

 

[Fizzbinn]

Yeah, In my test above I clicked "Ignore" after inserting a blank CD-R into my USB attached Apple Super Drive before running that command in the Terminal app to burn the .toast file to CD. I think the "hdiutil" command line utility must look for an unmounted burnable CD in an attached CD-R/W drive as you only have to pass it the file path of the image to get it to start burning the CD.

 

[Fizzbinn]

I haven't found an IDE mSATA adapter and card that will work in my Lombard, including that Ableconn that I use successfully in my 3400, Pismo, iBook G4 and Mac mini G4. There has got to be something about the IDE controllers used in the generation of machines between the 3400 and the Pismo. Something modern IDE adapters don't implement that drives of that era did.

I/O and disk controllers:

2400/3400: O'Hare
Wallstreet: Heathrow - Problematic
Lombard: Paddington - Problematic
Pismo: KeyLargo

Need to look at the desktops I have and see if the ones with the same controllers have the same problem...

So I need to make a correction, the Ableconn mSata to IDE adapter does work in a Lombard! My mistake was not double checking the jumper, like many other Macs of this generation IDE hard disks need to be set to Master, which for this adapter is nothing connected/no jumpers on either 45-46 or 47-48. I had tested with an adapter I was using in a PM 7300 on a Sonnet PCI ATA adapter which was fine with the adapter as shipped (47-48 jumper = Cable Select). What confuses me a lot with this is that there doesn't seem to be a standard on these jumpers, on some drives 47-48 being jumped does mean Master! For example: that new Yansen 16GB 2.5-inch PATA/IDE 44-Pin SSD I bought.

I tested with three mSATA SSDs:

• Transcend TS16GMSA370 16GB SATA III mSATA SSD
• Transcend TS64GMSA380M-QDT 64GB SATA III mSATA SSD
• Transcend TS64GMSA230S 64GB SATA III mSATA SSD

All worked fine. The first two I had on hand but I recently bought the 230S card as it was mentioned in another thread (which I now can't find) as working in mSATA adapters when other mSATA SSDs would not. I was dubious on that thinking the adapter would mask the any subtle differences in mSATA SSDs...

So I decided to try these three mSATA SSDs in the two other "cheap" mSATA to IDE adapters I have with the Lombard:

• Green Board - ChenYang mSATA Mini SATA SSD to IDE 44Pin 2.5 inch Hard Disk Case Enclosure Box White
• Black Board - 44PIN MSATA To 2.5 Inch IDE D SSD MSATA To PATA Adapter Converter Card

These two adapters are very similar (use same JM20330 Serial ATA Bridge Chip) but have some differences in populated passive components that I had thought might change their compatibility.

As previously tested with them the 370 and 380M still did not work in either. However the 230S worked in both of them! Not sure what to make of that other than the 230S (despite the lower model number) is a newer mSATA SSD, perhaps it better supports ATA modes that the Lombard uses?

In any case the combination of a cheap green board adapter and a 64MB Transcend 230S mSATA SSD is about the same cost as the 16GB Yansen PATA/IDE 44-Pin SSD (~$36) but with 4 times the capacity.

 

[s_pupp]

Useful info - many thanks!

 

[AC Rempt]

It's alive!

Installed the 120 GB using the ChenYang mSATA SSD to IDE card, and my Mac OS 8.5 CD sees it and initialized it just fine.

When I go to install 8.5, I get an alert telling me there's "not enough space on the disk to complete the installation. (2316311K needed, 2096892K available)." Weird, but 8.5 installed, and it's up and running! Thanks for all the help. Now I'm goiung to clean the outside up and get some applications installed.

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