DebB wrote: > Hi all, thanks for having me in your group! I have a few old SE's at > home and one of them has an issue with floppy disks. When I insert a > HD floppy (even a system disk from apple) I get the "this disk is > unreadable" dialogue. I have attached an external floppy drive but get > the same message. Now I am not sure what type of external floppy drive > I have - I have 3 of them, 2 with no eject button and one with the > eject button and the lined grooves on the case. I suspect they may > only be DD not HD drives.... is that the case? Or is there some kind > of system extension that may be missing? > > Perhaps the floppy drive in this machine is gone. Is there a chance of > replacing it from another dead machine, and if so, are there > instructions online somewhere?
The SEs you have, are they SE/30s or SEs. These are two distinct machines. All SE/30s have SuperDrives (1.44MB floppy drives) but SEs have either a SuperDrive or an 800K drive (or in some cases two). -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vintage-macs-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
