Hello,

I've recently gotten hold of a Color Classic with an LC550 logic board.  I also have an Aztecmonster SCSI to CF card I'd like to use in the machine to make it a bit quieter and more reliable.  I've had good luck with the Aztecmonster on another, non-Mac computer but I'm running into a strange problem on the CC.  I am trying to install System 7.1 but am having no luck.

I can partition and format my CF card with the modified Apple HD SC Setup program, and I can copy files to and from the drive in the Finder but installing System fails consistently on the first disk with the following error:

"The Installer cannot copy the file "System" onto the disk "Macintosh HD".
Installation cannot continue. Please delete this file and try running the
Installer again."

I can also copy a complete System Folder from another drive and boot off the CF card but afterwards I get odd errors about the disk being locked from other program installers.  Clearly something esoteric is wrong with the HFS volume on the card.  I know there is a removable media flag on CF cards but I would have thought that System 7.x is too old to care about such things.  It's not like I didn't boot off Zip disks, etc. in the '90's.

I've recently tried re-initializing the card using the Anubis drive utility to see if that would help.  I remember needing to use a 3rd party format program on the disk in my old SE/30 back in the day.   That didn't seem to help sadly.

Does anyone here have any ideas?  I apologize for asking questions on my first post but my Google-fu has failed me.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.