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Error type 97 when booting off of SCSI2SD
Posted by: KnobsNSwitches on 2019-01-16 14:17:58
I have a Color Classic that has been happily running a Performa 550 board and System 7.5.3 off of an internal SCSI2SD for awhile now.

I recently got a 575 board, and I'm trying to run Mac OS 8. I have not done the 640x480 mod, I am using the Resedit hack to allow it to run at the original resolution. 

It boots fine off on external (Ez135) drive, where I installed Mac OS 8 and did the hack. When I copy that same, functioning System Folder to the internal (SCSI2SD) drive, I get a happy mac but then a crash with an error type 97 when the extensions would start marching across the screen. It does the same with extensions disabled. It won't boot all the way.

Am I missing anything obvious?
Posted by: syn-fi on 2019-01-17 07:13:16
hi,

experiencing a similar issue.

I had an install of system 7.5.3 on a compact flash card (industrial), via scsi ide bridge (acard bridge) and this works fine.  I decided to create a clean install, on another card, same type/brand and on start i get 'error type 97'
Posted by: syn-fi on 2019-01-17 07:14:59
Quadra 700.

The bridges i have work with no issue on my 840av.  

This suggests there is something wrong with the install. i'm going to try by just copying the system folder over, as opposed to an install via the installer
Posted by: Paralel on 2019-01-17 09:40:08
I have a Color Classic that has been happily running a Performa 550 board and System 7.5.3 off of an internal SCSI2SD for awhile now.

I recently got a 575 board, and I'm trying to run Mac OS 8. I have not done the 640x480 mod, I am using the Resedit hack to allow it to run at the original resolution. 

It boots fine off on external (Ez135) drive, where I installed Mac OS 8 and did the hack. When I copy that same, functioning System Folder to the internal (SCSI2SD) drive, I get a happy mac but then a crash with an error type 97 when the extensions would start marching across the screen. It does the same with extensions disabled. It won't boot all the way.

Am I missing anything obvious?


By crash, you mean Bomb?

Unfortunately, Error Type 97 doesn't exist (according to official Apple docs), apparently it's supposed to be -97, but that is unhelpful as well since its a "portInUsedriver Open error code (port is in use)" which is essentially useless.

Have you tried formatting the SD using a Mac OS 8.x.x contemporary copy of FWB, Silverlining, etc...?
Posted by: syn-fi on 2019-01-17 10:27:22
hi,

i got round it.  I have two scsi bridges so i installed system 7.5.3 on a fresh card, then updated to 7.5.5 and it works.  perhaps it was the update.
Posted by: KnobsNSwitches on 2019-01-18 11:25:13
I did double-check, it is error 97 (not negative), so that's weird.

But! I did get things booting. I ended up using localtalk to transfer the entire Mac OS 8 installer to the color classic (over a matter of like 7 hours), booting off an external drive, and installing from there. It then worked normally. I did have to boot from external to run the 8.1 updater successfully as well.

I had used a PowerPC mac to make the system folder (that booted fine off of an EZ135, mind you!), so maybe that somehow had something to do with it? 

Regardless, voodoo or not, my CC is now running 8.1. 

It's not as fast 7 was, certainly, but my main reason was to get access to HFS+ volumes. Though I did realize that sharing over localtalk it doesn't matter if a volume is HFS+ or not. 

But hey, 8.1 !
Posted by: Paralel on 2019-01-18 14:51:14
I did double-check, it is error 97 (not negative), so that's weird.

But! I did get things booting. I ended up using localtalk to transfer the entire Mac OS 8 installer to the color classic (over a matter of like 7 hours), booting off an external drive, and installing from there. It then worked normally. I did have to boot from external to run the 8.1 updater successfully as well.

I had used a PowerPC mac to make the system folder (that booted fine off of an EZ135, mind you!), so maybe that somehow had something to do with it? 

Regardless, voodoo or not, my CC is now running 8.1. 

It's not as fast 7 was, certainly, but my main reason was to get access to HFS+ volumes. Though I did realize that sharing over localtalk it doesn't matter if a volume is HFS+ or not. 

But hey, 8.1 !


Yeah, it will only say 97, but it means -97, its just poor programming from what I had read.
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