I picked up an old Apple 40SC external hard drive. The previous owner
has replaced the drive with a 1GB drive.
When I connect this unit to my SE/30, the SE/30 will not boot from its
own internal HD, I get the flashing system disk with ? symbol in it.
If I disconnect the drive and restart, it
Well, it turns out the problem was no driver. As you suggested, I
copied the driver from another Mac and on reboot the CD popped up on
the desktop and worked just fine. I even put it on a boot floppy and
the drive works booting from the floppy too.
Thanks
On May 11, 2004, at 3:47 AM, Daniel
On May 10, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Michael Hackett wrote:
This suggests that you might be missing the Apple CD driver on the
other
systems. But did the drive work on the 7300 (which probably already has
the driver installed, if it has an internal CD drive)?
I found a link to an Apple CD driver for Sys
On May 10, 2004, at 9:02 PM, Ken wrote:
In addition to making sure that all SCSI devices have different IDs,
make sure that you have a terminator in the external drive.
Ken
All my tests were done with both an active terminator and a passive
passthrough terminator on the drive. For kicks I had
I've got an Apple 300e CD-ROM drive. I've got two cables, the standard
DB25 to C50 and the special Powerbook connector to C50. With the PB
cable the drive works with my 5300cs just fine. I put CD's in the
drive and the CD pops p on the desktop and I can copy files from the CD
to the PB and/o
