Well I tried the patched SC Setup but to no avail... wouldn't recognize the drive. I did manage to get it working again though with a copy of FWB HD Toolkit. The drive is now booting again on its own. Go figure.
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Nathan Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I recommended the old HD SC Setup because it predates Drive Setup (HD > SC Setup was first introduced in 1986). Use HD SC Setup with System 7.1 > and earlier. Use Drive Setup with system 7.5 and later: > > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1249 > > "Any time you install Mac OS versions 7.6, 7.6.1, 8.0, 8.1, 8.5, 8.5.1, or > 8.6 on your computer, you should use Drive Setup 1.7.3 to update the driver > on your hard disk again. If you are using a version of Mac OS prior to 7.6, > it is not necessary to use Drive Setup 1.7.3 to update your hard disk > drive. Note that Drive Setup 1.7.3 was tested with and is supported with > System 7.5 through Mac OS 8.6." > > > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I had heard about the patched 7.3.5 utility, will the drive will work >> under System 6 if I use it? I'm not sure I want to go beyond 6 for this >> machine. >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Nathan Raymond <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure what sort of boot blocks Lido puts on a drive formatted >>> with it. I would recommend using a patched Apple HD SC Setup, as outlined >>> here: >>> >>> http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> I posed this question over on the vintage-computer forum, but I may as >>>> well as here too... >>>> >>>> I have a Mac Plus, and a Peachtree Systems S20+ external SCSI hard >>>> disk. The enclosure has a Rodime R0652 20 MB hard disk in it. Previously I >>>> was able to boot and use the drive with no trouble, and the drive Icon >>>> matched the logo silkscreened on the enclosure. The drive ran and booted >>>> fine, with the exception of some disk errors as the drive filled up. I >>>> presumed these must have been bad blocks so I set about to remap the bad >>>> blocks. I tried to do this with a couple different utilities, Lido 7 being >>>> one of them. It wouldn't remap the blocks without first reformatting the >>>> whole drive. This didn't give me any grief since there's nothing of any >>>> value on the drive that can't be replaced so I went ahead and reformatted, >>>> partitioned and initialized the drive. >>>> >>>> After installing System 6.0.8, I can no longer boot from the hard disk. >>>> I get the Happy Mac, and it goes no further. If I boot from the System >>>> 6.0.8 System Utilities disk, I can see the contents and use the drive just >>>> fine. What gives? I've tried a 1:1, 1:2, 1:3 interleave factors with no >>>> change in results. 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