[DuoList] 2300c Hard Drive Woes

[Keegan van der Laag]

Thanks for the ideas, Clark - the 2300c recognizes the old drive, and 
actually after a lot of fiddling (with the 8.1 PPC Disk Tools disk I got 
to image, finally) and some playing with the 2300c-enabled DT2 disk I 
have, I DID manage to get a System Folder on the HDD and blessed. It was 
not pretty, but it works. I'm in the process, currently, of trying to 
get all the 7.5.3 installer files onto the HDD so I can do a full 
install and then upgrade to 7.5.5.

Really, though, what I need is a SCSI CD drive so I can install either 
7.6 or 8.1. Also, I'm still curious why this 2300c seems to be so picky 
about ATA drives - all I want is a 2+ GB HDD for this thing, but at this 
point, I don't even know what to buy.

I had a few people offer me SCSI/ADB mini-docks - anyone still want to 
sell me one?

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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