ok, I went and read all the stuf at AIsoft's site about disk warrior, since I've been hearing about it for a long time. was getting ready to order the CD-- a couple of things they said confused me tho: I can't download yet, so I will have to buy the CD. It says it has 4 versions of the mac OS on it--7.6.1, 8.1, 9.1 and 9.2.2. It says it will scan your machine to see what kind of processor it has in it. If it finds a 68020 or 030 it'll use 7.6.1 if it finds a quadra, it'll use OS 8.1 if it finds a 601,603 or 604 it'll use OS 9.1. if it finds a G3 or G4, it'll use OS 9.2.2
this right here poses me a quandary. I have machines with 68030 chips but they run in 7.5.5 they have never seen 7.6.1 won't disk warrior be operating in a language they have never seen? once it did its work, might it do something that my machines would be left confused by, since all the repairs were done in 7.6.1? and they speak 7.5.5? and then up a notch: if i use it on my 603-chipped PPC, it will use OS 9.1 to go thru the HD and rebuild it anew. OS 9.1 uses HFS+ But this machine can use anything from 7.6.1 thru OS 9.1 The system CD that came with it is 7.6.1 which is in HFS OS 9.1 is in HFS+ so say i use it to go thru the HD and rebuild it in my efforts to get the system to 'see' the mystery HD, which is too shy to show up yet, let's say it does that. the HD finally appears, but it's been structured by disk warrior in OS 9.1 in HFS+ filing. but that screws me== because my system CD is in 7.6.1 and I don't have OS 9 or OS 9.1 on CD let's say I wanted to take another HD and partition it, so that I could boot from 7.6.1 at one time, or OS 8.1 at another, or OS 8.5 at another, or OS 9.1 at another? anything i did in 7.6.1 would be filed in HFS anything I did in OS 8.1 and up would be in HFS+ presumably I could use that HD on this machine since it can use any of those OS's but disk warrior would decide based on the chip it found, which OS it would do its work in. doesnt this mean that with the system Cd being in 7.6.1, (HFS), everything else on the HD is inaccessible to me after that, if i have to boot from the system CD? disk warrior would do everything in HFS+? further warp: say I put a G3 in this with a sonnet crescendo L2 cache. now it's a G3. now disk warrior will see that and boot from OS 9.2.2 another system CD I don't have. In HFS+ all this seems confusing and asking for trouble. I was, all this time, figuring on connecting a SCSI external HD to the SCSI chain and seeing if the mac 'sees' it when i turn it on, and if so, seeing if it's already got an OS on it, and expecting that it probably will have 7.6.1 on it. [came out of a same-era mac] and if it works, using that to operate from while i try to wake up the original hard drive that won't show. but my brother in law who owned this previously can't recall if he was using OS 9 or OS 8-something when he turned it off and put it up b4 he gave it to me. 7.6.1 is HFS OS 8 and 9 are HFS+ i just see trouble coming. ??????????????? Janet http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
