I would personally go with the ZIP drive. Both SCSI and USB 100MB ZIP drives can be had for a song, even on eBay. The SE/30 with 6.0.8 by and large entered the era where applications routinely exceeded the 1.44MB threshold and forced files to be split among several disks, using something like Disk Fit.
ZIPs are plug-n-play and durable. You can then simply take a 100MB disk back and forth between machines. But I am a bit perplexed by your drive failure with the disks. I assume you have some basic install disks? Try booting up the SE/30 with a Disk Tools System disk and then try to format a new drive. It's possible something under your 6.0.8 System on the hard drive is preventing the Finder from formatting the disks properly. Do you have file exchange installed? Otherwise, there might be a head alignment problem, or the heads need to be cleaned. Possibly the erase head is off just by enough that some of the FAT formatting remains and confuses the Finder from reading the disk correctly, thus formatting fails. If you have access to a large magnet, preferably an electromagnet, such as a bulk demagnetizer, you might try wiping the disks completely, to see if it's a dirty or misaligned head. On Sep 24, 8:56 am, chris knight <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyway, help in transferring files would be appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
