I took a cd drive out of a old PowerMac 7100, stuck it in a external case, and hooked it to my SE. I booted up and it can't read any cds. Apple HD setup (or whatever it's called)…

Sure, excuse me. I got this pop-up window which says: "This disk is unreadable by Macintosh. Do you want to initialize the disk?".

Well I burned it in x8 speed (the lowest Snow Leopard burning speed I can choose) and it doesn't work. Click to expand... Can you be more specific than "it doesn't work"? Does …

Well I burned it in x8 speed (the lowest Snow Leopard burning speed I can choose) and it doesn't work.

Well, I'm not sure I wanna tackle the mods needed to run the 133MHz bus DP1GHz on the 100MHz bus of the Cube. So the DP500 might yet end up in there instead. By the way, picked t…

Yep, that'd be right...odds are the chip is probably an 82C861, which is a USB 1.1 controller - exactly the same as the one used on the tray load iMac G3s.

3 posts in a row now... but the Power Mac is running perfectly stable with a G4 running at 400mhz (66mhz bus with a multiplier of 6x). I've also stuck an ATI Rage 128 Pro PCI in th…

It seems just disassembling and reassembling all the parts somehow got it back up and running. Click to expand... Strong evidence of bad solder joins on a connector somewhere.

Auto suppliers are probably a good place to look for O-rings, too. Anything rated to survive life inside a car's engine bay should have no problems with the heat of a G5. Click…

You can make an adapter to hook the drive to a regular SCSI & power cable, but I've never heard of anyone actually doing that. Click to expand... MicroMac sold an adapt…

You can make an adapter to hook the drive to a regular SCSI & power cable, but I've never heard of anyone actually doing that. Click to expand... MicroMac sold an adapt…

It's a good idea to check the caps first and see if the motherboard's repairable in it's current state.

Yes. Find yourself a slow SCSI CD drive (say, 2x or 4x, max), and it should work. If you encounter a driver problem, the "CD Sunrise" driver works well with many third-party drives…

Wonderful new smiley!

Merry Christmas to all! And to all a new mac under the tree! { "lightbox_close": "Close", "lightbox_next": "Next", "lightbox_previous": "Previous", "lightbox_…

dang I knew I left mine somewhere

The Portable has a few of oddities. It's basically a low power 16MHz CMOS MAC SE. It requires more juice to spin up the HD than the AC adapter can supply, so it needs a charged bat…

Kinda makes the DP500 I just picked up for it a little redundant Click to expand... Renderbox for say, MP3 encoding or video encoding? I know it's a slower machine, but....

Can you use an external CD with a Macintosh SE? I need some way to take data over to it until I get my other floppy-enabled mac out. Thanks, agg23

Okay. I've reassembled the SE/30 and did a voltage measurement just as JDW mentioned. I am getting between 5.00V and 5.01V DC through the floppy port. The SE/30 is powered on, s…

Cheers, compadre. You got two of those for 27$?! Click to expand... AU$30 each (~US$27) Click to expand... But yeah, who's complaining? } One's going to re…

you have yourself a ticking time bomb... Click to expand... Click to expand... Agreed!

Bunsen...Have you taken your pills? Click to expand... No, I ran out. Can I have some of yours?

VERY nice haul, comrade! [] ]'>

Holy jeepers! Good haul!