Macintosh SE with BlueSCSI 6.0.8 Crashing ?

[Gonzo84]

Hi,

So I recently restored a Macintosh SE! Maxed the RAM added a new PRAM battery and took out the 20MB HD and added a BlueSCSI

Overall the system works ok but I'm having some issues with 6.0.8.

I formatted the card with the SD Card Utility and used Overwrite like the documentation explains and then again as EXfat and deleted the invisible Mac OS files.

So I have no issues really when I boot into the 7.0.1image I can play games and stuff no major issues other then it just running slow on a SE.

I want to run System 6.0.8 as everything is just snappier. For some reason booting into 6.0.8 will initially load the 6.0.8 image but then struggles to recognize the MacPack image and it will crash not being able to load the MacPack image its 1.6GB. System 7.0.1 loads the MacPack image fine and the system runs stable so not sure what that's about.

If I remove the Mac Pack image and just boot into 6.0.8 it boots and I can use the system but it will just generally crash often not even running apps just opening windows and stuff in the OS. Sometimes it crashes and brings up a dialogue box but no text. Any ideas this is the 6.0.8 image provided thru the documentations it came from the MegaNZ pack. I have also tried a 6.0.8 I made with DiskJocky and that also crashes often.

The SD Card is a SanDisk 32GB Ultra SDHC UHS-I Memory Card - 120MB/s, C10, U1

Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Phipli]

Hum, if I remember the MacPack image on Archive.org had a virus, that's the first thing I'd check. I might be getting muddled with another archive.

Next, is it read only? If it is, System 6 does the desktop in a different way and will want to rebuild it, but can't if it is read only.

Try creating a new, empty image, then formatting it with System 6, load up System 7 and copy everything over to it. See if that works better.

There might also be file number limits being exceeded potentially? Things got changed between System 6 and 7 in that area. Perhaps for now you could divide the pack into several smaller partitions and see if that helps (create new images and copy some over onto each).

Remember you can create a single 8GB (for example) image and partition it into four 2GB partitions and Mac OS will be happy to work with it without using up all your SCSI IDs.