I'm not on the Compacts list, so please forgive my posting here. I just got an SE and SE FDHD together for cheap, on eBay. The SE was listed as not working but only had a disconnected power cable at the board. When connected, it booted fine off a working 20 MB Miniscribe. I wish everything was that simple.
The FDHD works but the 1.4 MB drives will only accept 800k disks. After verifying that the drives were in fact 1.4 MB, I checked the board and confirmed that it had the FDHD board jumper arrangement for upgrading RAM. I checked The Mac SE Support Pages and found chip numbers that don't seem to Jibe with what this board should have. The chips on this board are: HI ROM 342-0352-A LO ROM 342-0353-A IWM 344-0043-A Did somebody swap chips or am I overlooking a more simple reason why these drives won't live up to their potential (My father never did figure that one out about me)? ______________________________ Hardy, Hard's Disk Ltd., Freehold NY. A branch of the Abandoned Computer Shelter. Apple and Mac systems and parts gratefully accepted. Systems charitably donated without profit. http://www.jmug.org/acs for a branch near you. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.binhost.com/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
