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| Power Macintosh 7200/120 | |
| Posted by: 3583Bytes on 2015-06-18 21:46:57 I recently picked up a few Macs from a recycling center. This is one of the ones I setup in my office. I needed a new hard drive and a good cleaning but other than that it works well. I have 3 others just like it that I will end up selling to a good home. Plays Diablo very well 🙂 Had to hook up the Floppy Emulator to the internal Floppy Drive cable to get 7.5.5 installed on it. Is there a trick to burning CDs that work on this thing? Can I use my modern Mac?  | |
| Posted by: max1zzz on 2015-06-20 15:23:11 Burn the CD's at very low speeds, burn them at the slowest speed your drive supports (and even then, support is hit and miss at best) | |
| Posted by: Hotdog Zanzibar on 2015-06-22 11:08:54 There's an accelerator card for this model on sale in the Trading Post. 🙂 | |
| Posted by: rsolberg on 2015-06-22 15:43:23 Also, if you use Toast, enable Legacy Formats in Prefs and then use Mac OS Standard for the disc format. | |
| Posted by: IIfx on 2015-06-26 09:53:10 If you want the G3 accelerator card for your new 7200, let me know. Its small so shipping to Canada should not be too horrible. I really liked my 7200 until the plastics started crumbling around it. When I merged my collection into one home I had to let it go. | |
| Posted by: tanuki65 on 2015-06-27 08:21:53 Use CD-Rs, preferably 650MB. | |
| Posted by: rsolberg on 2015-06-27 15:54:42 I like to check a flaky or unknown drive with a commercial (pressed, not burned) audio CD. If it won't play without skipping, the drive may be toasted or require thorough cleaning. | |
| Posted by: raoulduke on 2015-06-27 17:06:41 I haven't found speed to affect burning. However, TransMac (with good images) tends to be very effective (via Windows). That's not always true. I've had really weird burn failures also; I've never been able to systematically track why. I think the Toast option mentioned may only be relevant to pre-10.5; and if you have a modern Mac with 10.4 or below that'll probably be a flawless method (I don't think I've had problems using the Superdrive on my G4). | |
| Posted by: tanuki65 on 2015-06-28 16:04:58 CD-RWs won't work! | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2015-06-28 18:04:17 Speed affects older drives. The SegaCD won't read discs not burned at 2x or slower, for example. | |
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