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Got it copied off to a bootable CF card for the PCMCIA slot in the end and it’s working. That was a process.

Ok what the heck? It just mounted fine under OS 9.2.2 on my TiBook. Methinks I have some picky optical drives.

I just burned a CD and the classic mac OS won't mount it still. My PowerBook 3400 couldn't read it (old optical drives have issues sometimes with burned disks). I tried a clamshell and it gave the same error about it being uninitialized, thinking it's a 0K ProDOS image. Disc reads under OS X...

I think I'll just burn a CD then. I've got plenty of blank discs!

I've held C alone in the past with an official OS 8.5 CD in the drive and that's worked, will try command too tonight. I've actually got the 3400 with me right now but I'm out of the house so I can't test with my PiSCSI.

Hmm. Will have to give it another go then! Getting a 3400 to CD-boot can be a pain sometimes (I tried the "c" key on startup once but maybe it just didn't work). I'll give it another go tonight, thanks Steve!

I've still yet to get glypha 3 onto my powerbooks. gotta do that. Have been playing a LOT of tetris though, got a higher score but I'm not posting it yet because of the 3 entries thing. Edit: heyyy, 400th post!

691 0000 A according to an archive.org listing that appears to have the same toast image. I haven't tried it though, I probably should.

Hmm. Those open firmware commands really should have worked. Makes me think the original iBooks don’t support the commands. Wonder if there’s a newer firmware version for them?

I didn’t try that specifically, but I did upload the toast file directly to my PiSCSI and my PowerBook said it was uninitialized. I’d think if it’s a file name issue that should have worked. The file I downloaded was the “POWERBOOK3400-CD.ZIP” off the Mac OS 7.6 page.

Measure the voltage rails on the hard drive power connector with a multimeter. Go ahead and google how to do this, there are plenty of guides on how to test power off one of those 4 pin molex connectors.

Looking to replace the generic copy of 7.6.1 on my 3400 with the personalized one, but the dump of the disk on macintoshgarden isn't properly dumped for mounting on the classic Mac OS. I need to be able to do this (upload to my PiSCSI and mount over emulated CD-ROM). The copy out there is a...

Have you archived that disc?

I’ll try to install the customized copy of 7.6.1 on my 3400 to replace the generic copy of 7.6.1 that’s on there now if the CD is up online. I’ll have look and maybe I’ll do that tomorrow. what I find interesting is that the 190/5300 got their own restore CDs even though they never supported...

Alright. Scores marked “3lec-challenge” are from today. You can also see my all time best there… forget when I got that but hopefully I can get back there soon. Also I don’t know who Sean is. That score was there when I downloaded the copy from the garden. Doubt it’s @Action Retro ;) your move...

Hmm. The plot thickens! My 1400 is actually running 7.5.3! But it does have the identifier. This is an install that was done off my PiSCSI using an image of the original 1400 restore CD. no Mac identifier installed:

Well rats. It’s got 7.5.3 on it! I remembered wrong. I think my 1400 may actually have a copy of its factory install from a recovery CD on it. Give me a moment 😅

Do they? Wasn’t aware 7.5.2 was PPC only. I’ve got a spare PowerBook drive out of my 5300 with the original install - give me a few minutes and I’ll throw it in and boot it to confirm.

7.5.3 is when they killed it. 7.5.2 at the very least still had it, not 7.5. And as discussed earlier on mac identifier can bring it back even into OS 8, but it’s a bit buggy. Sometimes it works for me and on other systems it won’t. No idea why.

Rats. The one day I don’t check this forum thoroughly! Now you’ve got a head start on me. I’ll get on Tetris tomorrow though just you wait! Will have to give game 2 a shot as well. Would have to be an absolutely killer game to get me to buy a modern version but we’ll see :)