nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) (06/17/91)
Just for kicks, I attached a 160Mb disk from a Hewlett-Packard HP9000
workstation to the back of my Mac Plus, to see if Silverlining would
recognise it.
Lo and behold.... Nothing. So, I thought I'd try it on an SE/30, since the
Mac Plus's SCSI implementation is known to have problems. And, after a
false start or two, I had a 160Mb Mac disk running on an SE/30 (the false
starts relating to SCSI tests which seem to prefer a formatted, initialised
disk).
One puzzling thing: I can't make the disk bootable. Copying a System Folder
to it doesn't work. Running the Installer on it doesn't work. Is there
something special about HD's for Macs which this alien doesn't have? I altered
the SCSI numbers and startup device, no joy. The disk goes active for a second
at startup, but the SE/30 always chooses its internal disk.
Just curious - for now. If I could make the thing bootable, does this open
the door for nice cheap hard disks which aren't intended for Macintoshes?
Nick.
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Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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