[muglo] Re: 7100 problems

slowing to a crawl, I _may_ be able to see, but erasing hard drives???

OS9 is compatible with a 7100 afaik, and I was installing just the 
bAse ~50 meg system install (as opposed to the 200meg regular 
install).

I am still stumped abt the erased disks and such....



>You got it - the 7100 doesn't seem to be powewrful enough to run OS
>9.0. Even if you're able to install it, we found that installing it
>on a 7100/80 causes the system to slow to a crawl. Out it came and
>everything ran smoothly again.
>
> >hi all--
> >
> >    just got a 7100/80 M/B and am having trouble. I had HUGE problems
> >installing OS 8 (many finder errors, forcing restart). Then finally
> >with OS 8 installed, I installed OS 9, and on restart i got an
> >extensions error. (actually bus error, and told me to restart with
> >extensions off).  Then on restart the harddisk was unreadable!
> >
> >I thought, ok, maybe it's the HD... so I swapped a known , good HD,
> >and installed OS 9 using a different mac. When I put the good OS9 HD
> >in the 7100, I get the same thing.
> >
> >Everytime I "restart with extensions off" I get a blank hard disk
> >icon... and then on boot with a CD, the machine says the hard drive
> >is unreAdable.
> >
> >So I dont know what is going on.
> >Is 9 not compatible with a 7100/80?
> >seems weird.
> >perhaps I got a dud motherboard.
> >
> >any suggestions appreciated.
> >this has already taken me some days to figure, and still it's a no-go.
> >
> >regards,
> >~Alex
> >
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