On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Brahm Windeler wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Armen Babikyan wrote:
> 
> > >* BTW, why are you using System 7.6.1?  I didn't think that it would
> > >* even work with '030 machines.
> > >
> > >I don't think 7.6.1 is a problem with 030s, i use it, and even with
> > >extensions enabled, i can boot straight into BSD...
> > >
> > 7.6.1 works on all 030's except those which have ROMs that aren't 32-bit
> > clean (i.e. Mac II, IIx and IIcx).  This is what I have observed. Please
> > correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> i chose to use 7.6.1 because the system i had running on it (7.0.1) was
> becoming unstable and i needed to reinstall it.  however, i soon realized
> that the floppy drive was starting to fail.

I'm assuming you already tried a head-cleaning disk with no luck, right? 
Are you sure it's the drive and not the disks?  Are you able to format new
disks, or is the problem a massive enough flakiness that you can't do much
of anything?  Just curious.

> i have system 7.0.1 on
> floppies, but i also have 7.6.1 on cd.  i checked www.everymac.com (great
> site!) to see what versions of the operating system runs on the IIsi. 
> 7.6.1 was listed, so i hooked up an external cd drive and installed it. 
> as a side effect, the system doesn't crash (as often) while reading a
> floppy anymore.  i don't know if the old system was just corrupt or if
> there were a bunch of bug fixes in the later version.

Probably both.  I recall a marked improvement in stability when I dumped
7.0.1 on my PB145.  Still not stable, but better.


David

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