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Glad you got it working! And I never knew there was a better version of Drive Setup on the disk image so that's something to remember :) I'm just downloading a copy of Tiger which I'm hoping will work with UTM, the emulator for M1 / M2 etc which is basically a nice front end for Q-EMU. My tiger .dmg will not work but I discovered a .toast version which is said to work. My aim is to emulate things for testing on my M1 MacBook as I don't want to open up my PowerBookG4 again just to insert a blank M2 SSD for testing purposes and so if I can emulate things that's the way to go.

My aim is when it has finished downloading from the Internet Archive (which takes forever) it will let me have a hard disk image which can be partitioned. If so I'm going to use the Tiger CD to partition it with 2 partitions - one for OS9 and one for Tiger - much like you were attempting to do. Then after installing Tiger I'm going to install OS9.2.2 and hopefully get to see a flashing disk with a question mark on it. Then I'll use Tiger to patch the ROM on the OS9 drive as .hqx and use Stuffit expander to expand the new patched ROM and see if OS9 will then boot :)
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Thanks for the command line example. The more techniques we have the better. I do hope someone might be able to push this "driverless" possibility a little further though, but it won't be me. . . I was able to solve my driver dilemma by starting with MacOS9Lives boot CD, only instead of using the Drive Setup that auto-launches, closing that and mounting the disk image .img file used for the restore. . . that image contains a newer version of Drive Setup in the Utilities folder--one that can see and partition larger drives. That worked for me.

I know have a dual boot OS9 and OSX Tiger, though I do have 4 partitions and was considering trying out Sorbet Leopard.
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Ahhh. That makes sense, and explains the differences of observations among the accounts of attempts to use it. Thanks for that insight.
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can confirm this works, OS9, patch first (patch is in the package uploaded)
you need OMS and midi as well as scsi for SMDI connection
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Storage / Re:Mac PCI SATA Card Roundup
« Last post by aBc on Today at 05:25:39 AM »
Yo, gert79…

Rabbit Hole Computing is a member over on 68KMLA.org and there’s a 4 page thread there dealing with that specific SIL3112 PCI hard card - beginning on 1/9/2023 if you’re interested in much more info on that card. Here’s that link: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/a-high-quality-sata-pci-2-5-hard-card-to-celebrate-satas-20th-birthday.43133/
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are you after a MDD G4, Uk?
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on YouTube:

Hear, hear!

Had the same thought when one day I looked up Action Retro. He was talking about using a Haiku laptop as a daily driver when all of a sudden he switched to talk about a shaving lotion for men and thanked his sponsor!? THAT and the sensationalism that goes with it is what drives me away.

I find a good indicator is to see if the video preview has a photo of the author in it aka attempting "brand building". This verifies the "sales approach" versus the wish to spread information for me. If you want to see for yourself what I mean, look up Retro YouTuber "65scribe" and YouTuber "ActionRetro". Spot the difference?

on attachments:

It's been some time since I've dabbled with the admin settings of SMF, but I vaguely remember there was an option to allow only *registered* users to view attachments. This is not 100% solution, but I assume it'd not only provide a reason to sign up, but also keep the bots spidering this page constantly from grabbing documents?

on editing posts:

Maybe an extended period of time might be a compromise? Raising it to a few hours or a maybe a day? Otherwise I second the fact that this will likely be used by an enraged member to delete / obfuscate prior posts. You wouldn't believe how many people upload stuff to the Mac Garden and then rage delete them for whatever reason.
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The Install OS 9 drivers option when using OSX's Drive Setup will only appear if the drive you are formating is an external drive,  i.e.firewire. OSX will not offer that option if it sees it as an internal drive.
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I suspect, most of "retro" Youtubers have never used OS9 before, not to mention OS7 (which I'm a big fan of).
I also suspect that many of them are there for the money. Note the "Includes paid promotion" in the video  ;)
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Aha, the thread again shifts focus.


well, let me "correct" my statement a bit:

OS9 is "retro" when you have not been using it for a long time/never before.

but it is not "retro", when you have been using it since it exists.
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