-----Original Message-----
From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Vintage Macs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: Hard drive upgrade
>On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>
>> Tell us the make and model of the drive, then I or
>> someone can dig up a website with all the settings
>> and tell what should work. (Unless the drive is
>> a real old one from a long dead company that wasn't
>> bought by some other company that is still around.)
>
>It's a Seagate SCSI. I've got the jumper settings, but I can't remember
>the model off hand. I'll post the URL here later so maybe someone can
>point out the obvious that I've missed. It's got a set of jumpers to set
>the SCSI ID and a set to control termination. It's got 3 termination
>options, I think it's "drive powers itself", "drive powers itself and
>controller" and "controller powers itself". I've tried the jumper in all
>3 positions.
>
>Another question (yes, I'm a mac newbie!). Is there a utilities floppy of
>sorts for mac? I'm looking for something that boots MacOS (or at least a
>usable form) and offers me basic stuff like format, partitioning,
>etc. Sort of like Tom's Root Boot for linux or a rescue floppy in
>Windows. Is there anything like that? I saw in Pickle's FAQ about
>booting off another hard disk to accomplish a similar task but I'm curious
>as to whether there's a floppy disk that accomplishes the same.
>
>-Brian
If you can get your hands on a System 7.5 Disk Tools Floppy, it
boots your Mac, no weird extensions required.
Jeff
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