From: Kyle DePasquale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: IIci and A/UX Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:37:26 -0700
Okay, I tried it in a different IIci to see if it was the SCSI controller - same issues as before. So I try a slower speed drive, non apple of course, patch the boot floppy's CD driver with cd-sunrise, and it works wonderfully...to a point. It says that it cannot upgrade the system software on "/" and to erase the system software on the drive and try again. I did that, and I am still getting the errors. So i tried to do the "customize" instead of the easy install. It pauses after saying the drive will be overwritten with the new system software, and now I am getting CD read errors again. I even burned a new A/UX cd at 4x instead of the regular 12x, but now it seems that it is so slow that it will not even boot up fully into the installer. Maybe that will help shed some light on what *could* be going on...it seems that there should be a solution, because I was able to install A/UX before with these machines.
Some CDROM drives have a jumper (on the internal mechanism) for setting the sector size. It is possible that A/UX requires a different sector size than the Mac requires. I seem to remember that it was usually flavors of nix that used the other sector size setting.
Anyway, you might check for a sector size jumper and change it to the other condition (installed/removed) and try again. It's a bit of a long shot, but this is a problem that would show up on multiple drives, because it's a configuration issue.
Keep in mind that I'm guessing.
Jeff Walther
-- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! |
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
