Mac Plus sees SCSI2HD but won't boot from it

[tjjq44]

Maybe the SCSI2SD doesn't meet exactely the real old HD specs... As anyone asked the developpers to find a solution?

A trick to get around the problem (with system 6 only) is to boot from a floppy, then double click the finder file from the HD with command & option key pressed. Then, until next reboot/shutdown, the startup disc will remain the HD (system software versions must be identical on floppy and HD)

 

[bluesky6]

That's a neat trick. I'll try it out.

At the least, it will save some grinding on the boot drive: I have only 1MB and it looks like parts of the OS gets reloaded every now and then.

 

[just.in.time]

Armadsen, that sounds like the same symptoms of my Plus when I try to boot it with a Zip disk NOT formatted with Zip Tools 4.2.

This is almost certainly down to the odd SCSI implementation used in the Plus, unfortunately. I'd say a FloppyEMU or ROM-Inator are the ways to go with this machine. I opted for the ROM-inator. Required a little construction, but was cheap and gave me a bootable ROM disk (that you can actually write to from the Plus while it is running... I wish the ROM-inator II had that ability in the SE/30).

 

[elbaroni]

Hi all

just got my (ROM version 3) plus booting with the settings here: http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php/Mac_Plus and two ~1gig partitions. Tried to format with HD/SC which failed verification. Lido worked.