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Wow, robespierre, that's an interesting twist. Never thought of that.
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MacOS9Lives has historically required registration to see attachments, and if you log out you'll see that it still does.

Not only rage quitting, but the other major reason for not allowing post editing is that it is used by spammers. Spammers are smarter than you think: they know how to do a web search (or these days, paste a question to ChatGPT), then submit the mostly-accurate response to a thread, and later come back and edit in a spam link to ClassyMumbaiEscorts after the initial period when mods are less likely to notice. Their goal isn't for this forum's users to see the spam links: any link they manage to get into a high-ranked forum is automatically boosted by the PageRank algorithm. They would just as soon you don't see their spam.

I agree that a 1-day edit window is generally enough to prevent this.
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OK - I've just found out that UTM on the Mac does not allow you to boot from a drive with multiple partitions or at least I can't figure it out. I created a G4 Mac99 machine, booted the Tiger DVD and used disk utility to create two partitions: 1 2GB for OS9 and the rest for Tiger. Tiger installed at about the same speed as my PowerBookG4 which was nice. But on reboot it fails at the OpenBIOS stage. It looks like it's because OpenBIOS is expecting only one partition so it tries to boot from disk:,\\:tbxi and not disk:2,\\:tbxi which Tiger is installed on. I'm assuming it's disk:2 anyway as I can't remember if partitions start from 0 or 1 ;)

I'd issue the boot command to boot from the Tiger partition but UTM OpenBIOS is not allowing my to type at all. So I'm currently looking to see if UTM actually supports HardDrive files which have more than one partition. I may try with two separate disk images and make sure the OS9 one is formatted by Tiger WITHOUT the OS9 drivers.....
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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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