New to me PB180...it's dead Jim...

[3lectr1cPPC]

Oh no! The desktop regular version won’t fit the PowerBooks at all, they use a different connector. Yes, you need the PowerBook version. There are two main options for replacing these in laptops - the BlueSCSI already mentioned and the ZuluSCSI. I’d go and research them and decide which best fits your needs.

 

[at0z]

I ordered th PowerBook version of BlueSCSI. What’s the best OS to run on it ?

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

7.1 for performance, 7.5 for features. How much RAM does it have? If it’s under 8MB, 7.1 is probably the way to go.

 

[at0z]

It does have a ram expansion card but I can't tell size until I get it to boot to OS. But at least it isn't base memory. I may go 7.5.5 ?

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

You can, but it won't be very fast even with max RAM. But it works fine, 7.5.3 even boots on my PowerBook 180c with only the base 4MB RAM, but again, not very fast.

 

[at0z]

Unusually was expecting the drive to be a Connor but it's actually an IBM WDS-280 (80MB) but despite a few taps on the table it won't spin up. Oh well. I did open it up and the platter seems to spin freely so maybe the motor is banjaxed.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Apple shipped three vendors in these: IBM, Conner, and Quantum. Generally the IBM’s are the most reliable of the three but like any 30 year old hard drive there will be plenty of duds.

 

[at0z]

Yay Powerbook BlueSCSI boots into 7.1.1 and the display looks great. 8MB machine. I tried to put the installer .cdr on there as an image after renaming the extension to .iso and using CD30 as the filename start but it doesn't show up on the desktop. Conventional wisdom seems to suggest that Mac treats .cdr as .iso but am I missing something from the BlueSCSI side ?

I think I need to load Dark Castle next. It's been many decades...

 

[at0z]

Tried a couple of different 7.1.1 CD images that came from Macintosh Garden/Repository and it seems BlueSCSI doesn't like any of them -

CD3 InstallMeFirst CD.toast - bad SCSI LUN in filename, Using default LUN ID 0
- CD3 InstallMeFirst CD.toast CDROM / 80009216bytes / 78134KiB / 76MiB
MODE2:0 BlockSize:2048
Not an image: ._CD3 InstallMeFirst CD.toast

Where is it picking up or why is it picking up the "_" from? I guess I could try rebuilding the desktop file - that used to clear a lot of weird stuff back in the days....