Re: PFG Lisa

From: Philip Lord <philip_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:29:26 +0900

James, Helmut, Tom and Rick, THANKS.

My goal is to install 7.1 onto a SCSI drive. I have the SCSI card, with no quickboot chip. (and of course the PFG)

I now have the floppy working...hurray!!!! The problem was the media. I know have new 'copys' of MWII+ and it loads fine.

I have given up on the Sun Rum parallel drive for the time being. I'll figure out what the problem is later...maybe it's just dead...

I also have a SCSI HD (340mb) CONNER drive, that has an unknown format. Maybe it's Mac formatted, Maybe not. I don't (at present) have an external case to put the drive in to test.

The problem now comes when attaching this drive to the Lisa and booting from MWII+ will cause an error when loading the second 'system' disk, and prompts for a restart.

Simply unplugging the drive will not cause this hang and the Lisa will boot fine.

My next step is to make sure the drive it is formatted correctly. Can I do this from within OS9? or does it need to be older?

Getting closer.

Phil

On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:34 AM, James MacPhail wrote:

>> One quick question...without the PGF will the lisa (with 800k floppy)
>> still see the MW Plus II disk? my MW Plus II gets spit out
>> immediatly.
>>
>
> It is possible to boot MW+II on a Lisa without a PFG, but it is then
> limited to older versions of the Mac system software and IIRC,
> there are
> various other restrictions.
>
> There are two MW+II floppy disks, one is a 400k Lisa Boot disk, the
> other
> is an 800k Mac disk.
>
> After a cold boot, you will need to "startup from" the 400k Lisa
> Boot disk.
> If you are using the other disk, it will not be recognized and thus
> rejected. If Lisa is rejecting the 400K Lisa Boot disk, then the
> disk or
> the drive may be damaged.
>
> HTH,
>
> James
>
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