Anyone like old Mac computers?

fluxcore said:

I presume the scsi2sd has proper scsi termination ability, from what I remember the early macs were pretty picky about having everything terminated correctly.

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After chasing ghosts, I'm guessing it may be the external drive fucking up the internal scsi2sd. The Scsi2sd has a terminator installed, but my external only has "active term" on a switch. The scsi2sd fucks up the same ways if I have that on or off (the termination on my external hdd), so I ordered a physical terminator to see if that works. Something I read last night recommended ditching the digital termination for physical on these older macs.

If I could boot from a floppy it wouldn't be so bad, as I would think the scsi2sd should be fine on its own, but I already have full working sys7 on the external that I can use and boot from, so I'm in no hurry to try to make a set of 800k floppies just to move that data inside the case. I'll see how it goes once I have a proper terminator for the external end of the chain.

FML the micro SD I was using for my SE is dead. I threw that card in my working/configured powermac's scsi2sd, and the SCSI2SD locked up just like it did on the SE.

So if the SCSI2SD crashes out, and leaves a solid LED, it is possibly an indication that your SD card is dead. Once I had a good SD card getting it installed was easy. I recommend a long format / disk test on any card (sd, cf) you're putting in vintage hardware; following my own advice there would have saved me literally hours of time.