Hey Everyone.
I recently got a Macintosh Classic (I'll post photos soon) that I took apart, and restored (cleaned up, new caps, repaired drive (for now, soon will be a Blue SCSI once the parts arrive from Mouser) cleaned and re-lubed floppy drive, etc. Has the 4MB of RAM upgrade, original mouse, keyboard, power cable, and a Targus carrying bag. I love it so much!
Here's the issue, the floppy drive works, I've created several new system install disks using my Windows XP PC and OmniFlop. If I boot and install OS 6.0.7, i can wipe the drive, install the OS, boot to desktop, pop in another floppy, open the disk and play the game (or whatever the floppy is).
If I load anything OS 7 it seems (tried 7.0, 7.1, 7.5.0, and 7.5.3) I can install the OS, but now any floppy disks no longer work when booted to the desktop. I pop them in, nothing mounts, nothing happens. if I force the floppy out with a paperclip, I'll get a "unrecognized disk" error message.
The issue was the same with the original SCSI drive as well as when I replaced the drive with a BlueSCSI
I tried with both a wipe of the drive and a fresh install of System 7.X as well as upgrading from 6.0.7 to 7.X, seems to behave the same
Is there an extension I need to enable? or something I'm missing? Not sure if it matters, but the machine has no PRAM battery installed. Also, not sure if there's a better way to do this, but when I install OS 7.X, I first boot the 6.0.7 system disk to erase the SCSI drive, then reboot, and then load the 7.X install disk 1 and install on a freshly wiped SCSI drive. Is there a better way to wipe the disk and install 7.X?
(Growing up I started with a G4 PowerMac with OS 8.6 and went up from there, became a Apple Authorized Tech, and serviced hundreds of Macintosh machines, but never had a or used 68K or OS 6/7 machine until a few weeks ago, So it's possible I'm missing something)
Thanks everyone in advance for all your help on this!
I recently got a Macintosh Classic (I'll post photos soon) that I took apart, and restored (cleaned up, new caps, repaired drive (for now, soon will be a Blue SCSI once the parts arrive from Mouser) cleaned and re-lubed floppy drive, etc. Has the 4MB of RAM upgrade, original mouse, keyboard, power cable, and a Targus carrying bag. I love it so much!
Here's the issue, the floppy drive works, I've created several new system install disks using my Windows XP PC and OmniFlop. If I boot and install OS 6.0.7, i can wipe the drive, install the OS, boot to desktop, pop in another floppy, open the disk and play the game (or whatever the floppy is).
If I load anything OS 7 it seems (tried 7.0, 7.1, 7.5.0, and 7.5.3) I can install the OS, but now any floppy disks no longer work when booted to the desktop. I pop them in, nothing mounts, nothing happens. if I force the floppy out with a paperclip, I'll get a "unrecognized disk" error message.
The issue was the same with the original SCSI drive as well as when I replaced the drive with a BlueSCSI
I tried with both a wipe of the drive and a fresh install of System 7.X as well as upgrading from 6.0.7 to 7.X, seems to behave the same
Is there an extension I need to enable? or something I'm missing? Not sure if it matters, but the machine has no PRAM battery installed. Also, not sure if there's a better way to do this, but when I install OS 7.X, I first boot the 6.0.7 system disk to erase the SCSI drive, then reboot, and then load the 7.X install disk 1 and install on a freshly wiped SCSI drive. Is there a better way to wipe the disk and install 7.X?
(Growing up I started with a G4 PowerMac with OS 8.6 and went up from there, became a Apple Authorized Tech, and serviced hundreds of Macintosh machines, but never had a or used 68K or OS 6/7 machine until a few weeks ago, So it's possible I'm missing something)
Thanks everyone in advance for all your help on this!
