Re: Rebuilding Power Macintosh 9600

In article <lr1g29Fsi8uU1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

On 2024-11-30, scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:

In article <290920240831355501%vintageapplemac@gmail.com>, scole
<vintageapplemac@gmail.com> wrote:

 
I've been meaning to rebuild a PM 9600 for some time now. I had four
of the things, all in various states of distress; one that was
particularly souped up and had been my main battlestation  for a
number of years but was very tatty, and the others that ranged from
ugly on the outside but fine on the inside to full of rot inside but
cosmetically fine. I had the makings, then, of at least one really
nice example.

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Update: I got this finished last weekend. Or, at least, finished for
now...
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I wasn't happy with the SCSI2SD set-up I had, so recalled the
recommendation someone gave to use a BlueSCSI and went ahead and
ordered one. It did take me some time to get my head around the way
that these need to be used, the placing of a hard drive image on the
SD card rather than simply formatting the card itself. I also decided
to find the original instyall media for the 9600 and managed to get a
sensible deal on the install CD from a guy in America. When that
arrived I installed the BlueSCSI board and got 7.6.1 up and running.

 
I've been using a BlueSCSI in my trusty Mac SE/30 for a while now and
it's been great. It's fast, stable, and now the only noise I hear when
it's running is the exhaust fan. 🙂

That reminds me, I forgot to change the internal fans when I was putting
the 9600 back together! I have some SilenX fans, and intend to replace at
least the fan on the inside of the side panel, and probably inside the PSU
too. I replaced all the fans in this G4 MDD and, as it only has SSDs in
it, the thing is almost totally silent, it's definitely a good upgrade to
make!