Sorry for the late reply. I tried to solder the HDD and it didn't go for power. I am guessing either caps or bad solder points on the LC II board for the HDD. If I press on the cable to the HDD for power, the drive will spin up or down. It's possibly a loose joint somewhere, and I will take a crack at a later time to the molex adapter on the LC II logic board.
Right now it's shelved as I have to work on a project for another friend of mine that the HDD logic board went belly up (in smoke as well) to recover the data. I got a replacement board on ebay, but it seems that the previous one started doing random writes when it fried and took out the partition table. I am using a tool to piece the information back together and rebuild the data, but it's slow going. I am estimating 93% data loss over the whole drive due to corrupt writing (the drive would spin up and chatter but it wouldn't read. Looks like a tri-ac on the board blew. I found the chip crumbling as if a surge hit it.)
So for a few days the LC II project is on hold.
I did find a SCSI CD-ROM in my collection (8x CD-ROM from apple) that I was able to mount the CD I had and I did get 7.6.1 installed on the LC HDD. It's an 80MB Conner SCSI drive. very slow. I got the LC to mount the CD by taking the network access disk, getting rid of the networking stuff (chooser/extensions) and stuck the CD-ROM extension, as well as the HFS and Foreign File Access extension on the floppy and booted from it. It allowed me to read the CD-ROM.
Oh and I also found out the LC II boots from CD. The disc I have however doesn't have a system folder so it wouldn't boot from that (hence why the DVD-ROM wouldn't boot from it).
So it has an OS, and Ethernet card, 8MB RAM, 256KB VRAM (256 colors @ 640x480) 80MB HDD, sound works, no whine. probably needs to caps replaced (from power issues I guess unless it's a cold solder joint) and the floppy works great (no stiction/etc...)
Looks to be a good unit, if a bit slow. I might play with the AppleCD SC Plus later by tweaking the laser settings. it might be out of sync or not strong enough. I have to tear down the whole drive for that, but I will try it nonetheless.
I will be back later to report updates. Thanks guys and thanks eisenfaust for letting me borrow the powerbook G3 to get what I needed going. It was a big help. Oh and Eisenfaust, I was able to recreate your 7.5.3 install floppies but i had to replace several floppies (I transfered the labels) because at last 5 of them were DOA as far as floppies go. So you have a 7.5.3 install set, just some of them are not original. I did not do the extras though. I would need more spare floppies to do those.
Right now it's shelved as I have to work on a project for another friend of mine that the HDD logic board went belly up (in smoke as well) to recover the data. I got a replacement board on ebay, but it seems that the previous one started doing random writes when it fried and took out the partition table. I am using a tool to piece the information back together and rebuild the data, but it's slow going. I am estimating 93% data loss over the whole drive due to corrupt writing (the drive would spin up and chatter but it wouldn't read. Looks like a tri-ac on the board blew. I found the chip crumbling as if a surge hit it.)
So for a few days the LC II project is on hold.
I did find a SCSI CD-ROM in my collection (8x CD-ROM from apple) that I was able to mount the CD I had and I did get 7.6.1 installed on the LC HDD. It's an 80MB Conner SCSI drive. very slow. I got the LC to mount the CD by taking the network access disk, getting rid of the networking stuff (chooser/extensions) and stuck the CD-ROM extension, as well as the HFS and Foreign File Access extension on the floppy and booted from it. It allowed me to read the CD-ROM.
Oh and I also found out the LC II boots from CD. The disc I have however doesn't have a system folder so it wouldn't boot from that (hence why the DVD-ROM wouldn't boot from it).
So it has an OS, and Ethernet card, 8MB RAM, 256KB VRAM (256 colors @ 640x480) 80MB HDD, sound works, no whine. probably needs to caps replaced (from power issues I guess unless it's a cold solder joint) and the floppy works great (no stiction/etc...)
Looks to be a good unit, if a bit slow. I might play with the AppleCD SC Plus later by tweaking the laser settings. it might be out of sync or not strong enough. I have to tear down the whole drive for that, but I will try it nonetheless.
I will be back later to report updates. Thanks guys and thanks eisenfaust for letting me borrow the powerbook G3 to get what I needed going. It was a big help. Oh and Eisenfaust, I was able to recreate your 7.5.3 install floppies but i had to replace several floppies (I transfered the labels) because at last 5 of them were DOA as far as floppies go. So you have a 7.5.3 install set, just some of them are not original. I did not do the extras though. I would need more spare floppies to do those.