I am having some issues loading Mac OS on my SE/30. The machine itself includes 32MB RAM, IIfx ROM, and a 2GB LaCie branded Quantum Fireball SE.
I have tested the hard drive. It's good, according to Silverlining on my G3, and is formatted HFS with the Silverlining driver. I can write files to it, and read files from it with no issues. My SE/30 sees it, BUT, I cannot format it with patched HD-SC Setup 7.3.5, and when using the Silverlining driver, I get one of two error messages when trying to install Mac OS 7.1: Not enough space, or, something about how Mac OS setup cannot copy files to that drive because there may be something wrong with it.
Possibly important variables:
- I tried loading 7.1 from the same floppies onto a different 500MB drive. Worked fine, just the drive was very loud.
- Mac OS 7.5 (any version) will NOT complete a boot. It freezes during the "Welcome to Macintosh" part... However, I was able to load 7.5.5 on the above 500MB drive just fine and it worked great.
- Logic board has a variety of bad caps, still works, but no sound
- SE/30 ROM SIMM seems to be incompatible with the Silverlining driver (sad mac right away.)
- IIfx ROM SIMM gives me a vertical stripe (simasimac) screen for a while at startup, then goes away and works fine
- I have also tried partitioning the 2GB drive differently, IE 500MB/1.5GB and I got the same error messages.
- In 7.5.5, with the SE/30 ROM, Mode32 turned on would cause a frozen happy Mac right away at startup.
So what am I doing wrong? I am using the 6.5.8 version of Silverlining. Is that driver version incompatible with system 7.1? I'm not sure why I cannot boot from my 7.5 install floppies as I could before. I am dedicated to getting this working somehow but it is turning into a huge cluster F of horrible.
I have tested the hard drive. It's good, according to Silverlining on my G3, and is formatted HFS with the Silverlining driver. I can write files to it, and read files from it with no issues. My SE/30 sees it, BUT, I cannot format it with patched HD-SC Setup 7.3.5, and when using the Silverlining driver, I get one of two error messages when trying to install Mac OS 7.1: Not enough space, or, something about how Mac OS setup cannot copy files to that drive because there may be something wrong with it.
Possibly important variables:
- I tried loading 7.1 from the same floppies onto a different 500MB drive. Worked fine, just the drive was very loud.
- Mac OS 7.5 (any version) will NOT complete a boot. It freezes during the "Welcome to Macintosh" part... However, I was able to load 7.5.5 on the above 500MB drive just fine and it worked great.
- Logic board has a variety of bad caps, still works, but no sound
- SE/30 ROM SIMM seems to be incompatible with the Silverlining driver (sad mac right away.)
- IIfx ROM SIMM gives me a vertical stripe (simasimac) screen for a while at startup, then goes away and works fine
- I have also tried partitioning the 2GB drive differently, IE 500MB/1.5GB and I got the same error messages.
- In 7.5.5, with the SE/30 ROM, Mode32 turned on would cause a frozen happy Mac right away at startup.
So what am I doing wrong? I am using the 6.5.8 version of Silverlining. Is that driver version incompatible with system 7.1? I'm not sure why I cannot boot from my 7.5 install floppies as I could before. I am dedicated to getting this working somehow but it is turning into a huge cluster F of horrible.