I agree with Macdrone, mostly*. By formatting it on a Power Mac, you put a newer version of the disk driver on the drive that the SE doesn't understand.
I use Lido or a patched copy of Apple HD SC Setup to format drives like this. Be aware though that the maximum partition size under System 7.5 or earlier is 2 GB.

*The SE doesn't need to have it's drive formatted as MFS as HFS works fine. Perhaps he meant HFS Standard vs. HFS Extended?

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Maybe, but the drive was already formatted once under MacOS 9. So really does not matter at this point. I would think that even with an updated driver on it, the SE should be able to see it and format it subsequently installing its own driver.

Yes there is a 2GB ceiling under System 7, as I mentioned above. So I bump them a few MB under to be safe. I am going to try another mobo quick, just to rule it out though.

Last night I did read up about patching HD setup and how it works better than HD SC Setup. So I will try that too.

http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/drvsetup.html