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From: "jrclark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal SCSI on Power Mac 8500/132
>
> Are you saying your cd tray will not open ?
It opens fine, but the Mac won't boot from it by holding down "C".
> Do you have a OS cd and you can't boot with it by holding
> C key at start ?
Mister Cleo?
> Do you have a floppy with disk img on it, to boot with ?
Yes, both downloaded from Apple and the original OS 7.6 and 8.0 floppies.
> Do you have Norton or DiskWarrior to boot with ?
Haven't tried Norton yet. It's just a gray screen Clark? What could
it be?
> Personally i would not choose anything but Apple Drive Setup
> to format my disks in a Mac computer.
I agree! Silverlining has worked well on vintage Syquest drives,
and I'm sure I made a mistake by choosing it for the internal
zero drive. Still, anyone have any relevant info? These questions
may help, I hope. Thanks Clark!
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>
> > Horns of a dilemma, Part I.
> >
> > Wanted a fresh 8500/132, so I formatted the internal
> > 1.2 GB Quantum Fireball hard drive with Silverlining
> > 5.x.x (the Apple Setup didn't want to do the
> > intialization.....). Everything went fine so I
> > partitioned the drive into two equal parts Apple I and
> > Apple II. MacOS 8.5-->8.6 onto I and 7.6-7.6.1 onto
> > II. Still fine. Shutdown to restart later. When I did,
> > the 8500/132 froze up immediately and I have no access
> > via the CD-ROM, external SCSI or floppy drive. It just
> > won't start-up properly even though it sounds the
> > resonant chord, displays a gray screen and arrow. It
> > doesn't git to the Happy Mac.
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