Hello knowledgeable people,
I could really use some advice. I bought a UniStor 120MB external SCSI drive, thinking I could install 6.0.8 on it and boot my Plus from it.
Unfortunately, though I can start the Plus from a floppy and I can mount and read the UniStor, I can't boot from the UniStor. I get a sad mac error 0F001C. Can't find this one in the sad mac reference I know about - all I can find is that it's an "exception" because of the F, but I don't know what kind.
I wonder whether I've been doing something wrong, or whether I just can't use this drive for this purpose. Here's what I did: I mounted the drive from my 7200. I used MicroNet Utility to format the drive with a 3:1 interleave (necessary, as it didn't come that way, and before I did this caused my Plus to emit all kinds of startling beeps of various pitches). I partitioned it as one Mac OS partition, and updated the driver.
Then I ran the 6.0.8 installer. It warned that the software or hardware were incompatible. However, it let me do a custom install and install a system for the Plus. After I was done, the system folder on it even looked "blessed" - from my System 8 perspective, anyhow - it had a happy Mac face on it.
When I hooked up the SCSI drive to the Plus and tried to boot up, there was the sad mac face.
I have repeated this process a few times, sometimes using Lido 7 instead of the Micronet Utility, but with the same results. I can read it from the Plus but I can't boot from it. I really want to be able to do this. I want to avoid wearing out the floppy drive by booting from it all the time, I want to boot from the same drive I'll have all my data and programs on, and also I just want to solve this puzzle.
Any advice for me?
Thank you,
Jessi Hance
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