Thanks everyone, I think I have a place to start. :)
I've started looking at as much as I can of the broken original disk with Fedit to see what's going on there... Norton Disk Editor seems to let me see the boot blocks but not edit them, maybe I'm missing something there. The tour...
Hey all,
I'm trying to fix my "Your Apple Tour of the Macintosh SE/30" floppy - I've hit a snag, in that this disk originally had a System Folder with only a System file present, no Finder. The tour is the startup application, rather than the Finder. My original disk still boots, but the tour...
On a related tangent... Could this logic be used to get the Floppy Emu to behave as two mounted floppies simultaneously? Or am I dreaming in Technicolor?
That's really the key here.... You need a patched copy of HD SC Setup on your Plus. With the patch, it no longer checks for the Apple ROM and will accept to format any accessible drive. In fact it will even format a Zip disk as though it were a hard drive!
Check out...
Also, the concerns over dust were really most relevant when these machines were in heavy use - unless you're using your Plus and your 128 daily, and for hours per day, I wouldn't expect dust build-up to really be significant.
Macro Maker, I believe... I remember the icon was the typical "Mac" icon that the System and Finder had, but with a cassette sticking out of the monitor. The UI looked like a tape recorder.
I would add that the 6100 riser for the DOS card effectively converts the PPC PDS into an 040 PDS (meaning the DOS card is actually an 040 PDS card, not a PPC PDS card). I have successfully used a DOS card from a 6100, removed from its riser, directly plugged into the PDS of a Quadra 800. No...
I would venture a guess here that the slightly-non-standard SCSI implementation of the Mac Plus is to blame. The Plus was released a bit before the SCSI spec was final, and as such has a few differences.
Sorry for the Wiki link, but it's all I can find at the moment with Apple's older dev...
Done! The IIsi attempts to boot off the HD20. Doesn't get very far, because the HD20 has System 6.0 which doesn't support the IIsi. But it reads, says Welcome to Macintosh, then a polite suggestion to get a newer System and be sure to install support for the IIsi.
Under OS 7.6 I copied some...
Preliminary test results -
SE/30, System 7.0.1: No activity whatsoever. HD20 completely ignored at boot-up and after boot. Tested floppy port with an external 800K drive, the port is fine.
IIsi, Mac OS 7.6: No attempt to boot from HD20, booted from internal HDD. Immediately when Finder...