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- From: w.l.vaughn@LaRC.NASA.GOV (Wallace L. Vaughn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help: failed to stall system on a HD
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:32:30 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
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- References: <14NOV199220432540@oregon.uoregon.edu>
- Reply-To: w.l.vaughn@LaRC.NASA.GOV (Wallace L. Vaughn)
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- (Victor Der-Thanq Chen writes
-
- >Help!
-
- >My 105M HD worked just fine with my IIsi. But I decided to use the IIsi for
- >some other thing. So, I bought a used Plus. After I connected the HD to the
- >Plus and turn it on, the Plus refused to boot up. The error message I got
- >was
- >that the HD was not formatted for this machine.
-
- >No problem. I can reinstall the system again. So, I got my old system 7
- >disks
- >and try to install the system again. No good luck. The installer told me
- >that
- >it cannot install system, please remove the old system first.
-
- >No problem. I got an old system 6 start up disk to boot up the whole sytem
- >and
- >successfully remove the old system. I use the installer again. No good
- >luck.
- >I got the same message that installer cannot intall system on to the HD. It
- >suggested me to remove the old system.
-
- >But, I don't have system on my HD anymore. I am confused. Can anyone help
- >me
- >to figure out what's wrong with my HD?
-
- The error message you reported said to reformat the disk, which from the rest
- of your question I gather has not been done. Back up your HD then Find the HD
- setup program for the 105M HD and reformat the disk with a 3:1 interleave
- factor, or, some setup programs will just list the type of computers. Due to
- the Plus's slow SCSI interface many drives work much better at 3:1 instead of
- the more typical 1:1 used for most macs since the Mac II. (Someone more
- competent may wish to explain the details of interleave). After reformating
- you should be able to install the System 7 software.
- I hope this helps
-
- Wally Vaughn
- Dislaimer The above is my opinion not NASA's or the US Governments
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