[DuoList] 2300c Hard Drive Woes

[Keegan van der Laag]

When I was originally trying to install 7.5.3 from DT2, Disk First Aid 
and Drive Setup were both perfectly happy to recognize the original hard 
drive.

I found the 8.1 Disk Tools image (Disk_Tools_PPC.img) but I'm having a 
hell of a time getting it to write to a floppy. Bluescreens on the 
windows machine when it tries to access the image (using TransMac), I'm 
almost wondering if it's not corrupted. I've downloaded it from a couple 
sources, and both of them do the same thing. When placed into the SE/30, 
the floppy in question is seen as not being recognizable - when one 
tries to initialize it, the system throws an Error 11 and restarts. 
Curiouser and curiouser.

On 3/24/2010 8:34 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
> On 3/25/10 12:54 AM, Keegan van der Laag wrote:
>> Original Drive still works in the Duo, but it makes some pretty terrible
>> clunking and scraping noises when it tries to read/write in a few spots.
>> When the drive still had a System install on it, it would boot, but it
>> would literally take hours to do it. Unfortunately, I don't have access
>> to a Duo Dock (though I'm starting to think I should take someone up on
>> an offer of one and have it shipped).
>
> Try booting from the floppy you have and see if it recognizes the 
> original HD.  Just to make sure that software is seeing an IDE drive.
>
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