Re: PFG Lisa

From: Philip Lord <philip_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:11:06 +0900

Yes, I have tried holding down the option key, but it does not seem to work.
However I have a broken keyboard (that was given to me) with many dead keys, I am waiting for a fully usable keyboard to arrive soon. I do believe that the left option key is functional thought, but it still does not seem to change anything with regards to the SCSI crash.

Also the drive is fully terminated.

Thanks

Phil

On Oct 15, 2005, at 4:35 AM, Rick wrote:

>> Simply unplugging the drive will not cause this hang and the Lisa
>> will boot fine.
>>
> If a SCSI drive is connected, MW+II with try to boot from it,
> sounds like
> this is failing. MW+II has an option force floppy boot up (MacOS)
> even with
> a drive connected (holding one of the option keys at startup).
> Have you
> tried this? After using the MW+II "boot" disk, you don't need to
> use the
> MW+II "System" disk, just boot your own bootable floppy like it was
> any
> other Mac (400K or 800K).
>
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
> An OS9 formatted disk will work (I have done this, although I would
> not
> recommend it), as long as it's HFS and not HFS+. The bigger
> problem here
> unless the drive has an apple ROM, you may need a 3rd party app to
> format it
> on an older system. Also be careful hooking up the drive, SCSI
> termination
> issues abound on the SUN SCSI card (just like a real mac plus).
>
> Rick
>
>
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Received on 2005-10-15 08:19:50