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| Posted by: macintoshpleasework on 2020-08-11 06:44:59 Hi Nathanplus, thanks for your reply. I have scanned the drive using Lido, and it does come up with bad sectors and it also fails to reassign them, which suggests a deeper issue. Formatting and initializing the drive using Lido completes successfully, but I get the same issue when trying to boot after a fresh install. | |
| Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-08-11 06:46:28 May I suggest a SCSI2 SD 5.5 or floppy emu? | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-08-11 08:03:07To give a final (maybe) update on my Mac Plus - I'm happy to say that with the great help of cheesestraws providing boot disks, as well as a new floppy gear from Italy, it's now running nicely! Yay! That's really nice to see. What's that keyboard you've got on that? I have scanned the drive using Lido, and it does come up with bad sectors and it also fails to reassign them, which suggests a deeper issue.Yeah, that smells to me a bit like your drive is on the way out. You could pop another SCSI disc in that enclosure—they're not that rare—or you could put a scsi2sd 5.1 in there if you want to maintain the look but run from something new and solid-state. (A 5.5 is more like a "thumb drive"; less useful here, as the Mac Plus doesn't natively power stuff on the SCSI bus—so you'd need a power wire to it anyway, or to mod the logic board in your Plus. Personally, since you have the enclosure, I'd use that). Personally, I really like the scsi2sd, but I didn't like storage with moving parts when it was new, either; other people feel otherwise 🙂 | |
| Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-08-11 08:04:43 Sorry, I meant a 5.1....thanks cheesestraws. | |
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2020-08-11 08:09:53Sorry, I meant a 5.1....thanks cheesestraws.That wasn't meant as a correction of you 🙂 a 5.5 would be a sensible option too, they're just trickier to get hold of in the UK and since OP has the enclosure, it would be nice to use it. | |
| Posted by: macintoshpleasework on 2020-08-12 21:01:07 Thanks for all your suggestions regarding the drive - I had the faint hope that drive would do the job, but maybe it is worth looking into the scsi2sd. What's that keyboard you've got on that?The keyboard is a Datadesk Mac 101. I'm not too knowledgable about keyboards, but It is actually quite nice to type on.  And the key switches  | |
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