I got the SimasiMac when I first powered the SE/30 on. By turning it off and back on, I got 'normal' screen with the floppy icon with blinking question mark. I downloaded System 6.0.8 disk image and created 4 floppy disks. The system just kept rejecting the floppy disk. Thinking it was floppy drive issue; I replaced the floppy drive with working one (from a SE). I was able to boot the machine but I

did not see anything on the screen to allow me to install the 'OS' on the hard disk. I turned it off and started it again. Now it just rejected the floppy (the same one I was able to boot before; I tried other 3 floppy disks as well and the result was the same)

I installed the floppy drive to back the SE but it seems something went wrong on the floppy drive. The system asked me whether I want to repair the disk. When I clicked OK, it just rejected the floppy.

I would like to make my SE/30 work and the floppy drive work on the SE again. Please help...

Questions:

1) How do I diagnoise whether the floppy on SE/30 is working or not? Can I swap the floppy drive from SE/30 to SE to check?

2) I read in the forum about 'blessed the folder'; what does it mean? How do I do that?

3) Since the SE (not the SE/30) keeps rejecting the floppy, how can I reformat the disk on the SE?

Thank you in advance.