🚀 go-pugleaf

>A friend of mine has a 1200 c/w Blizzard 1230 + 16MB simm and is
>running shapeshifter 3.1 (more stable) System 7.5 is being used on the
>mac and 10MB assigned to it at bootup.

>Maybe you could answer the following questions:

>1. When the control panel for MacPPP is opened the (OPEN) button is

>shaded out not permitting a tcp connection. The MacTCP control panel
>is active and configured correctly. If I use his Hard-disk to boot my
>a4000/040 without any changes MacPPP functions and I can get a
>connection !!! The ROM is from an 030 based Mac on both machines. Any
>suggestions other than extensions Manager fiddling (tried that !)
>would be appreciated.

Sorry I can't be of much help here I'm afraid. I just tried to configure
SS with TCP/IP today and I got a specially made Installerprogram and
everything worked from the start (they bundled with a lousy newsreader program
though. Can you imagine: a newsreader that can ONLY be used while ONLINE??
I'll stick with Thor.).

>2. Do you know of anyone using a Maxtor (7420AV) 420MB hard-disk with
>S.S. My same friend tried to use one of these drives on his
>1200+Blizzard Workbench worked Okay with a few errors when
>transferring files but s.s. refuses to boot. The Max Transfer was set
>to 128KB and 64KB respectively in different attempts in HD Toolbox and
>the Mac config, still no joy. He now has to use a seperate 105MB
>seagate drive with a small boot partition to run S.S and then swap
>back to the maxtor for normal WB stuff.again any help appreciated.

Hm. Is that an IDE or SCSI? Direct SCSI access or devicedisk (which I can't
use as my Shapeshifter isn't registered). If your friends copy is, try both.
What SCSI-controller is he using? I've heard rumours that the one that
attaches to the Blizzard has problems with Shapeshifter. The squirrel, on the
other hand, works fine.

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                Amiga Owner Since '87 and proud of it!

     A1200 + Blizzard 1230-III (50 Mhz), 2+8 Megabyte RAM, 1 Gig HD,
                2x CD-ROM, SquirrelSCSI, Accex 28.8k Modem
                        (did I forget something??)