I recently acquired a Mac Plus from an old friend...it was her parent's and I gather was used for many years. Unfortunately, looks like it got stored in the basement or something and has acquired a bit of mildew...but just sitting around problem is half of its problems...where shall I begin...
The external Lacie hard drive (with a Quantum Prodrive ELS) is dead. I whacked on it (and may have killed it) trying to get it going...ultimately pulled the cover and tried the head move trick...it will seek back and forth a few times, then spin down anyway. I've written that part off... I used an LCII to create a System 6.0.8 boot disk and it booted up just fine. Once. Now it spins, heads seek, then it stops spinning. Pauses, spins, seeks, then stops again...disk icon on the screen goes to an X when it stops, then normal looking as it tries again, wash, rinse, repeat. Could this be as simple as needing a head cleaning? The disk still works fine in the LCII. I also plugged in an external Apple 3.5 disk drive and it boots fine on that as well. Any other maintenance that might need to be done on the drive? I don't yet have the special screwdriver to get the case open either... I'm guessing the heads are clean since it did boot once ok...? Anyone ever heard of a Phaser 800 floppy drive, made by Warp Nine Technology? Gotta love the name regardless. <http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif> It came with the Mac...seek sounds very noisy and it won't boot from that drive either. Struggling to figure out how to get the thing to come apart...I think I may have slide it forward, pull the drive bezel off, then slide it out the back....? And lastly...I can't get it to recognize an external hard drive...one that works fine on the LCII. First tried an ADTX drive, which uses an IDE to SCSI adapter with a 2.5" IDE drive...system 7.5, nothing. Tried a generic Seagate Cheetah (I think - maybe Barracuda) in an external case with 7.5...nothing. I have a SCSI to IDE adapter which then goes to Compactflash, again, nothing...all of these boot fine on the LCII. Finally put in a fresh 256mb CF card and loaded 6.0.8 onto it via the LCII, no dice. Booted the Plus and tried to get it to see the drive with a patched HD SC Setup and it does not see the drive. Do I just need a really old SCSI drive to work with this thing or something? Any other ideas or common problems I should be looking out for? Thanks, Wesley -- -- ----- 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
