Well, here's an update to what's going on.
For some reason now when I turn on the Mac Plus with the external hard drive connected I get the sad mac symbol with the error 0F000A. The Apple site says this error code has something to do with Line 1111, which unfortunately means nothing to me. The error code appears before the flashing disc symbol, so it has to be before even trying to load the system.
Sometimes I can still get the drive to show up on the Plus if I load from a floppy, and then restart the machine. A lot of the time it gives me an error, saying the disk needs to be initialized, but if I've recently repaired the desktop file on the G3 (see below), I can intermittently get the hard drive to appear. However, I can't copy anything to it as it just results in an error.
I also now have a PowerMac G3 and I can get the hard drive to appear on it, but every time it has to rebuild the desktop file. When I scan the drive, with the disk repair utility, it reports there are problems that can't be fixed. Also performance is very odd when connected to the G3. It seems like the drive keeps stalling when it's accessed. For example, the access light will blink and I'll hear the hard drive working (fortunately, these old drives are pretty loud), and there will be progress on whatever operation is running. Then, after a few seconds, the operation will stall, while the access light stays solid on, and there is no audible hard drive activity. Do these problems sound like what would happen if the drive was unterminated, or could it be due to the 3:1 interleaving that was used on the Mac Plus?
I managed to get most of the data off of it, but larger files refuse to copy. Due to the age of the drive, it's possible they're all partly corrupted, but it's weird in that it seems to apply to literally every large file. Smaller files all copied off with no problems. With the weird, intermittent disk access problems I'm wondering if there is some other access problem going on?
My next step is probably to re-open the external hard drive enclosure and verify whether the drive actually is terminated internally. I was just a small child at the time, but I remember at one time we had two hard drives, so it's possible that when my dad removed the second, he didn't realize that the other one needed to be terminated. Maybe it worked more or less fine with the Plus in the past due to how slow it was, but with the G3 it causes more problems?
I'd appreciate any insight or advice you guys may have.
For some reason now when I turn on the Mac Plus with the external hard drive connected I get the sad mac symbol with the error 0F000A. The Apple site says this error code has something to do with Line 1111, which unfortunately means nothing to me. The error code appears before the flashing disc symbol, so it has to be before even trying to load the system.
Sometimes I can still get the drive to show up on the Plus if I load from a floppy, and then restart the machine. A lot of the time it gives me an error, saying the disk needs to be initialized, but if I've recently repaired the desktop file on the G3 (see below), I can intermittently get the hard drive to appear. However, I can't copy anything to it as it just results in an error.
I also now have a PowerMac G3 and I can get the hard drive to appear on it, but every time it has to rebuild the desktop file. When I scan the drive, with the disk repair utility, it reports there are problems that can't be fixed. Also performance is very odd when connected to the G3. It seems like the drive keeps stalling when it's accessed. For example, the access light will blink and I'll hear the hard drive working (fortunately, these old drives are pretty loud), and there will be progress on whatever operation is running. Then, after a few seconds, the operation will stall, while the access light stays solid on, and there is no audible hard drive activity. Do these problems sound like what would happen if the drive was unterminated, or could it be due to the 3:1 interleaving that was used on the Mac Plus?
I managed to get most of the data off of it, but larger files refuse to copy. Due to the age of the drive, it's possible they're all partly corrupted, but it's weird in that it seems to apply to literally every large file. Smaller files all copied off with no problems. With the weird, intermittent disk access problems I'm wondering if there is some other access problem going on?
My next step is probably to re-open the external hard drive enclosure and verify whether the drive actually is terminated internally. I was just a small child at the time, but I remember at one time we had two hard drives, so it's possible that when my dad removed the second, he didn't realize that the other one needed to be terminated. Maybe it worked more or less fine with the Plus in the past due to how slow it was, but with the G3 it causes more problems?
I'd appreciate any insight or advice you guys may have.