Okay, so I haven't given up yet...
Got to thinking that the one constant throughout all of my problems was the System 6.0.8 image that I had been using. Different disks, some with Ramdisk, but all the same image.
So, tried a system 7.0.1 disk tool disk, and my previously mentioned "Lonely Mac" syndrome has not appeared after sitting for ten or so minutes (and more) like it did before. It does, however, reappear when I tried to use HDSC to initialize the 160 mb Apple drive from an old Centris I found at a thrift store.
Minor progress that I wanted to share in case anyone has had similar problems. Does it make sense that a corrupted image file could cause such problems? As best as I can recall, the image was from the Apple site, since it had to be a 1.4 image to copy to disk on a PC using WinImage.
Now if I can get one of the freebie, third-party formatting/initializing programs to work on the HD...
Got to thinking that the one constant throughout all of my problems was the System 6.0.8 image that I had been using. Different disks, some with Ramdisk, but all the same image.
So, tried a system 7.0.1 disk tool disk, and my previously mentioned "Lonely Mac" syndrome has not appeared after sitting for ten or so minutes (and more) like it did before. It does, however, reappear when I tried to use HDSC to initialize the 160 mb Apple drive from an old Centris I found at a thrift store.
Minor progress that I wanted to share in case anyone has had similar problems. Does it make sense that a corrupted image file could cause such problems? As best as I can recall, the image was from the Apple site, since it had to be a 1.4 image to copy to disk on a PC using WinImage.
Now if I can get one of the freebie, third-party formatting/initializing programs to work on the HD...