winnie@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Winnie Williams) (08/29/87)
My roommate just picked up an SE with a 20 meg hard disk. Our first task was to initialize the hard disk and set it up to boot the system. We were provided with two copies of a disk labelled tools or system, I don't remember on which were tools to initialize and check the hard disk and then to install the system stuff. The initializing and checking went ok, but when we tried to install the system stuff we were getting an error that it could not find font 12. It would then ask you if you would like to continue and if we did it died seconds later. To install the system stuff we had gone into the installer where we were given a menu with choices of all the different Macs that one might be setting up. We tried both copies of the disk and both gave us the same error. The manual suggested that we try reinitializing the hard disk and trying again, which we did. Still no success. We were able to just move the icon from the other disk to the hard disk to get it going but I'm wondering if anyone else has had similar problems, or knows why we encountered the problems we did. -- Winifred I. Williams Image Analysis Systems Group Jet Propulsion Laboratory winnie@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov
rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) (09/05/87)
In article <4364@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> winnie@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Winnie Williams) writes:
This should be old news, but it isn't. Mac SEs still are shipping with
HD SC 1.3 on their disks (at least, the Macs that I got 10 days ago
had this; I don't know what today's group had in the box).
HD SC 1.3 will NOT work on many Mac SE drives. That's why they
rushed out HD SC 1.4 to dealers, schools, etc. Get a copy of
this update from your favorite update source (it is free) and
boot your SE with it; run the application, and choose "Update"
to fix the SCSI drive on your disk. End of problem.
As I understand it, there are 2 sources for SE disks; HD 1.2
only worked with one after the manufacturer changed production
slightly. So (with predictable results) they quickly fixed
their program, producing 1.3, leading to....
Bit rot. It's all bit rot.
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