blessing: only a requirement on OS 9 and below, not 'used' on OS X. the boot volume needs to have a 'blessed' system folder to boot. 'blessing', causes the location of the system folder to be stored on the boot volume in special place on the disk, so the boot process can find the system folder. 'blessing' can be done by moving the finder and/or the system suitcase out of the system folder to some other folder and then moving them back to the system folder, as far as I remember. should not be a problem in mounting external disks on a system. there is no requirement for the external disk to have a system folder. OS 7.5.3 probably will not mount a HFS+ formatted volume. no standard software to understand the format. if you try to mount a HFS+ on OS 7.5.3 you get a message in the folder window that says to view this disk you must be at OS 8.1 or greater..
good luck;; dale in dolores.. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jake Tesler To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 7:28 AM Subject: Re: Mac SE SCSI Thats a good concept (the first suggestion), but I tried unplugging the HD and using it over USB with the following results: My MacbookPro (Lion) recognized and mounted the drive. Unfortunately, it is formatted as HFS, which Lion won't write to. My other mac (Leopard) which CAN write to HFS, would NOT mount the drive. :( The other option (CF) sounds like a good alternative. To questions though...how would I format the card to HFS correctly, and then copy the files from the HD to it? (is "blessing" an issue here?) My concern is that the card would have to be formatted using Leopard, which would be hard but not impossible (terminal would be the option here). Check! But since Leopard is the only OS that can write to HFS, and it won't mount my HD (with the files), where do I go from there? I am starting to think that -and this would be REALLY complicated- I should just plug the HD into my Lion computer, transfer it to the USB stick holding my Leopard OS, then boot off the Leopard disk, and copy to the CF volume. Then it brings up the question of "blessing" the volume. Does anybody know if blessing is an issue with system 7.5.3 on a Powerbook 1400? -Jake On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:35 AM, william Bowles <[email protected]> wrote: On 8 Nov 2011, at 05:59, Jake Tesler wrote: > Its currently 1AM where I live (NY), so I am going to try a new theory tomorrow. I have a crazy idea of formatting a ATA 2.5" HD to HFS (using Leopard) and extracting the ATA adapter in the CD-ROM drive, and just plugging in an adapter. I saw this on a website…I think I'll try it out. I'll let everybody know how (if) it works. > > -Jake Hi Jake the adapter in the cd rom is different to the ata/ide on the hdd or should i say everyone i have ever seen has been different, why not get a usb to ide adapter then remove the hdd from the 1400 and hook it up via usb to the macbook connected to the adapter, works for me with my old powerbooks. or you could convert the old powerbook to compact flash with an ide to cf adapter. Then you could just pop the cf card to update it via a cf to usb adapter there are loads of options out there and they are becoming cheap due to the falling cost of ssd and cf now . I am currently doing this with my lombard/ wallstreet and my duo simply because it increases the battery life as there is no moving parts in cf and speeds the response of the mac up. I acquired three 8gb cf cards and adapters from ebay for less than £10 each. william -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
