Power Macintosh 7200/120

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I recently picked up a few Macs from a recycling center.  This is one of the ones I setup in my office.  I needed a new hard drive and a good cleaning but other than that it works well.  I have 3 others just like it that I will end up selling to a good home.  Plays Diablo very well

Had to hook up the Floppy Emulator to the internal Floppy Drive cable to get 7.5.5 installed on it.

Is there a trick to burning CDs that work on this thing?  Can I use my modern Mac?

 

[max1zzz]

Burn the CD's at very low speeds, burn them at the slowest speed your drive supports (and even then, support is hit and miss at best)

 

[Hotdog Zanzibar]

There's an accelerator card for this model on sale in the Trading Post.

 

[rsolberg]

Also, if you use Toast, enable Legacy Formats in Prefs and then use Mac OS Standard for the disc format.

 

[IIfx]

If you want the G3 accelerator card for your new 7200, let me know. Its small so shipping to Canada should not be too horrible. 

I really liked my 7200 until the plastics started crumbling around it. When I merged my collection into one home I had to let it go. 

 

[tanuki65]

Use CD-Rs, preferably 650MB.

 

[rsolberg]

I like to check a flaky or unknown drive with a commercial (pressed, not burned) audio CD. If it won't play without skipping, the drive may be toasted or require thorough cleaning.

 

[raoulduke]

I haven't found speed to affect burning.  However, TransMac (with good images) tends to be very effective (via Windows).  That's not always true.  I've had really weird burn failures also; I've never been able to systematically track why.

I think the Toast option mentioned may only be relevant to pre-10.5; and if you have a modern Mac with 10.4 or below that'll probably be a flawless method (I don't think I've had problems using the Superdrive on my G4).

 

[tanuki65]

CD-RWs won't work!

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Speed affects older drives. The SegaCD won't read discs not burned at 2x or slower, for example.