It powers on and the light blinks when I insert a disk. Also if I reboot and a disk is left in the drive, it acts like it's being scanned for a valid system folder.
So I am pretty sure the drive works.
I am going to try a long shot and see if FWB can get it to mount a disk for me.
I was successful in cloning the HD from the stock 750MB HD to a 6GB HD. What I did is make a compressed disk image in OS X of the drive and then I put the new drive into my USB enclosure, formatted it with the apple partition map so it can be used as a startup disk in a powerpc computer, then restored the disk image I made of the stock drive to the new drive.
That wasn't enough though. The drive had to be blessed otherwise it wouldn't boot, I know - tried. To do that from a system that is only running OS X (my sawtooth which is not booting into 9.2.2, but that is for a different thread) open up a terminal window then:
1. get super user status (if you haven't configured the root user in OS X.4 or less than fire up netinfo manager and do so). Then type in su
2. Then enter the following command
replacing the "Mac OS 9" portion with your volume name.
Install the HD into the system and boot.
So now all I have left to do is get the darned Zip drive working and I am good to go.
For some reason I also misplaced or lost my PB SCSI cable so if anyone has one they don't need let me know please. Then I could have my SCSI CD-ROM working and be totally set up.
So I am pretty sure the drive works.
I am going to try a long shot and see if FWB can get it to mount a disk for me.
I was successful in cloning the HD from the stock 750MB HD to a 6GB HD. What I did is make a compressed disk image in OS X of the drive and then I put the new drive into my USB enclosure, formatted it with the apple partition map so it can be used as a startup disk in a powerpc computer, then restored the disk image I made of the stock drive to the new drive.
That wasn't enough though. The drive had to be blessed otherwise it wouldn't boot, I know - tried. To do that from a system that is only running OS X (my sawtooth which is not booting into 9.2.2, but that is for a different thread) open up a terminal window then:
1. get super user status (if you haven't configured the root user in OS X.4 or less than fire up netinfo manager and do so). Then type in su
2. Then enter the following command
Code:
bless --folder9 "/Volumes/Mac OS 9/System Folder" --bootBlockFile "/usr/share/misc/bootblockdata"Install the HD into the system and boot.
So now all I have left to do is get the darned Zip drive working and I am good to go.
For some reason I also misplaced or lost my PB SCSI cable so if anyone has one they don't need let me know please. Then I could have my SCSI CD-ROM working and be totally set up.