Recent content by Nagorak

Oh, also I should add that I haven't yet had a chance to open up the Mac Plus to assess any internal situation.  The torx screwdriver I have access to turned out to be too fat to reach the deeply recessed screws, so I'm going to have to look into getting another one. 

Well, here's an update to what's going on.  For some reason now when I turn on the Mac Plus with the external hard drive connected I get the sad mac symbol with the error 0F000A.  The Apple site says this error code has something to do with Line 1111, which unfortunately means nothing to me. ...

It's good to know it's probably not the SCSI controller.  Honestly, that would be pretty poor product design if just plugging in a cable wrong could cause it to explode.  Also, if the chip was just flat out blown you wouldn't think it would read anything at all, whereas it does seem to get...

I think I managed to get the hard drive set back up correctly.  It was put into storage in the same condition that it was when working, so it doesn't make sense the settings would have been changed.  It's unfortunate I didn't know about needing to smack the drive before I went to all the trouble...

Well, I tried smacking the drive and that did indeed allow it to spin up.  I then tried reconnecting it to the Mac Plus, and it starts to load but ultimately fails.  Considering I witnessed copious amounts of smoke coming out of the Mac Plus, I'm thinking the problem is probably on that end. ...

I recently dug my old Mac Plus out of the closet, and was hoping to copy the data off the hard drive in order to use it with a mac plus emulator on the PC (Vmac Mini).  The data is from when I was a kid, and isn't of any real importance, probably just some old school reports, some game saves and...