Hi !
I found a mac SE/30 some 5-10 years ago, and I switched it on.
I still remember the horrible sound the hard drive made.
Yesterday, decided to fix it, so I opened it:
I have a bunch of mac stuff of the same period sitting here, so I found an external scsi disk of the ~same capacity; Can this be swapped in directly ?
I removed the lithium battery.
I tried to boot the mac from a floppy disk; after cleaning it and trying making multiple images of multiple systems on multiple floppies (with dd on osx, and with winimage on windows, and testing if I can read the content in my macbook - yes I can), I can't get it to accept any floppy.
It does this everytime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9PzmTKCCg
The only thing I did not do is clearing the head with isopropyl alcool since I don't have any (difficult to get in france), I cleaned it with a dry Q-tip, can I clean it with something else ? 90deg alcool ?
Does the drive needs fixing ? Can I try something else ? thanks...
I found a mac SE/30 some 5-10 years ago, and I switched it on.
I still remember the horrible sound the hard drive made.
Yesterday, decided to fix it, so I opened it:
I have a bunch of mac stuff of the same period sitting here, so I found an external scsi disk of the ~same capacity; Can this be swapped in directly ?
I removed the lithium battery.
I tried to boot the mac from a floppy disk; after cleaning it and trying making multiple images of multiple systems on multiple floppies (with dd on osx, and with winimage on windows, and testing if I can read the content in my macbook - yes I can), I can't get it to accept any floppy.
It does this everytime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9PzmTKCCg
The only thing I did not do is clearing the head with isopropyl alcool since I don't have any (difficult to get in france), I cleaned it with a dry Q-tip, can I clean it with something else ? 90deg alcool ?
Does the drive needs fixing ? Can I try something else ? thanks...