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.

 

[Gonzo84]

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.

Ok thanks I will try these ideas!

The MacPack was from mega.nz it was a link from the bluescsis own documentation so I think that image should be good.

I'll check if its read only or not. And good idea about the blank image and formatting it.

As for SCSI IDs I think im ok only have 3 HD images at once.

Didn't think about making an 8GB and partitioning tho good idea.

Lots of stuff to try now thanks!

 

[akator70]

MacPack also has it's own System images on it. Those could be conflicting with your intended system images. On my Mac Classic I deleted all of the System images from the Mac Pack drive image and I haven't had any issues with Mac Pack specifically since then.

 

[Gonzo84]

MacPack also has it's own System images on it. Those could be conflicting with your intended system images. On my Mac Classic I deleted all of the System images from the Mac Pack drive image and I haven't had any issues with Mac Pack specifically since then.

I noticed it has system folders in it but I have 2 other separate images that I use for booting 7.0.1 and 6.0.8 I guess I could delete the system folders from MacPack but don’t see how they would be causing issues if I am not booting from that image. Hmm

I guess also I could just get rid of the other images and try booting right from the Mac Pack I think it has a system picker app or something to switch between the different system folders. Maybe that version of 6.0.8 wouldn’t crash.

I will try tinkering around tonight when I get home. But also might wait for my rear SD card mount to arrive as I don’t have one yet and it’s a pain taking the case off to get the SD card!

Thanks