You compacters everywhere: Funny thing. I have that little piece of controversial Mac history known as The Grouch v 2.5.b3 on all of my Macs from SEs and Classics and every 030 of any kind. It used to be on all of my 040 Macs until MacOS 8.1 got on to them. Well, I have an external hard drive here that is loaded with the master load. Actually, I've a closet shelf full of external drives, one for each kind of load that I do. I've master load drives for the SE, the Classic, the SE/30, the Classic II, and the Color Classic, so this seems on topic here. And The Grouch is on all of them. In all cases, when booted to the external, these master load disks perform just like an internal drive. Specific to my question here is, yes, Oscar, The Grouch, comes out of the trash and sings just fine when running from an external hard drive.
I have undertaken to create a SyQuest 135 disk for each of these master loads. Our compacts will boot just fine to a SyQuest. Another backup seems a good idea and they are much more portable which is a plus in my work. Well, when the SyQuest disk has been created, fully configured, and heavily diagnosticated, guess what? The Grouch doesn't sing when booted from the SyQuest disk. Actually, The Grouch doesn't even come out of the trash. Nothing! At first I thought it was The Grouch extension file became corrupted when it transferred. Nope. Then I thought it was the System sound software. Nope. Other sounds are just fine. The Classic I was working with? Nope. The same thing happens when I do this with the SE as well. I can load this master load from the SyQuest to another compact and, again, Oscar does his thing just fine. I haven't tried it with an 030 compact or better yet. My current guess is that the SyQuest drive, operating at about half the transfer rate of a regular hard drive, just isn't supplying the file fast enough. Any idea here? Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
