Here are some more thoughts after playing with it a bit more last night.
I swapped the SE/30 ROM back in - and I can boot off the 7.5 floppies now, but it will NOT complete a boot with the 2GB drive installed. When the Mac OS Setup application starts to load, I get a spinning watch cursor and it will just sit and do nothing (not frozen, hard drive LED flashes constantly.) This is also with the 2GB drive reformatted as one partition, using the Apple driver from HD-SC Setup. If I put my old 500MB hard drive back in, I can boot into 7.5 without an issue.
I will be recapping the board. I ordered caps from trag to do my SE/30 and my IIci, but in the meantime I did clean the board off pretty well. I gave it a nice bath in contact cleaner so the rest will have to wait.
Here's another weird thing - initially, I had 24MB RAM in this - and every operating system I had loaded on it would only see 8MB. I couldn't get Mode32 to work so I never saw the rest until swapping in the IIfx ROM, at which point I also did the 32MB upgrade. BUT, after swapping the SE/30 ROM back in last night, I can still see 32MB...in any operating system, WITHOUT Mode32 installed. I am talking like booting off a generic 6.0.5 floppy that I made for my Plus years ago, the 32MB still shows up correctly.
I will have to try Drive Setup instead. I really think this is a hard drive driver issue, and is somehow related to drive size. It just has to work somehow, and I am surprised that the Silverlining driver did not work. I tried partitioning the drive in several different ways but unfortunately that did not seem to make a difference.
Perhaps I should just let it go until I get the board recapped.
I swapped the SE/30 ROM back in - and I can boot off the 7.5 floppies now, but it will NOT complete a boot with the 2GB drive installed. When the Mac OS Setup application starts to load, I get a spinning watch cursor and it will just sit and do nothing (not frozen, hard drive LED flashes constantly.) This is also with the 2GB drive reformatted as one partition, using the Apple driver from HD-SC Setup. If I put my old 500MB hard drive back in, I can boot into 7.5 without an issue.
I will be recapping the board. I ordered caps from trag to do my SE/30 and my IIci, but in the meantime I did clean the board off pretty well. I gave it a nice bath in contact cleaner so the rest will have to wait.
Here's another weird thing - initially, I had 24MB RAM in this - and every operating system I had loaded on it would only see 8MB. I couldn't get Mode32 to work so I never saw the rest until swapping in the IIfx ROM, at which point I also did the 32MB upgrade. BUT, after swapping the SE/30 ROM back in last night, I can still see 32MB...in any operating system, WITHOUT Mode32 installed. I am talking like booting off a generic 6.0.5 floppy that I made for my Plus years ago, the 32MB still shows up correctly.
I will have to try Drive Setup instead. I really think this is a hard drive driver issue, and is somehow related to drive size. It just has to work somehow, and I am surprised that the Silverlining driver did not work. I tried partitioning the drive in several different ways but unfortunately that did not seem to make a difference.
Perhaps I should just let it go until I get the board recapped.