SE Questions — #9

Post #9 by Mac128

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Sun, 30 Mar 2008 - 17:14
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/se-questions.12572/

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Question: Can the SE/30 motherboard support two internal floppy drives?

I know the SE/30 has a single floppy connector on the MOBO but can a dual floppy cable be used like in a PC?

No. The SE/30 does not physically have the ability to decode a second drive. It does this via a specialized GLU chip which splits the ENBL1 signal from the IWM/SWIM. The Macintosh Portable is the only other Mac with the custom GLU which allows support for 3 total FDDs.

I have an SE that is different from my SE FDHD and SE30 metalwise.

Here is the step-by-step for the official Apple OEM SE-to-SE/30 upgrade kit, which involves replacing the chassis and the front bezel. It is likely by the time they issued the SE-FDHD that Apple decided to include the identical internals so all one had to do was slide in the logicboard upgrade.

http://home24.inet.tele.dk/ccadams/se/se30.html