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- From: ds8k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Donpaul C. Stephens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Why Q700 Rebuilds Dtop?
- Message-ID: <MePs7te00WBM07AMdH@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 20:07:21 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.MePs7te00WBM07AMdH
- References: <1992Jul22.025115.2886@cujo.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <6psxp-j@rpi.edu>
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- >|> We have a Quadra 700 here which has a Seagate 250Mb drive...
- >|>
- >|> It has been formatted with a number of different disk formatters:
- >|> 1) Jasmine DriveWare
- >|> 2) SCSI Director Pro 1.8
- >|> 3) SilverLining 5.31/12 (I know this isn't the latest version)
- >|>
- >|> Every time the machine starts up, it rebuilds the desktop in the
- >|> boot partition....
- >|>
- >|> The System has been reinstaled from scratch (7.0.1 with TuneUp 1.1.1)
- >|>
- >|> Any ideas, comments, suggestions...
- >
- >I have found that if you have a Mac which normally uses System 7, but
- >boot with System 6.x.x, the desktop gets rebuilt when you switch to
- >System 7 again.
-
- I have a 700. Not that i'd even want to, but:
- You can't run any System under System 7.0.1
-
- 7.0.1 was supposably an extra kick to make 7 work nicely on the Quadra line
- Just my 0.02, i wouldn't give up System 7 for anything [till 7.1] :-)
-
- -Donpaul C.
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