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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...

Thirded. It's very likely the PC Drive card.

That's what I can't figure out... The original disk has a blessed System Folder, without a Finder in it. So Apple had a way, but what is it?

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?

Nice!! That's from a MacCharlie!

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...

There is also a very relevant previous thread on the topic of SCSI on the Mac Plus here: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11371

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...

I have a working HD20, and thanks to you, working SE/30 and IIsi. So I can at least try those out, see what response I get from them, if any.

Entirely true - maybe this one strikes me as different because it's an "artificial" drop. Had support stopped when the external floppy connector did, that would have been "normal" (regardless of whether external floppy drives might still have been useful at the time). But dropping code out of...

In a way I'm surprised that Apple dropped hardware support for the HD20 so quickly... Clearly, they never would have sold an HD20 to a customer who intended to use it primarily on a IIsi for example. But what about existing customers moving to new machines? If you had a 512, for instance...

The rule of thumb generally - at least for desktop Macs - is if the drive is Apple-branded, then it can handle variable speed and GCR encoding, which are the requirements for 800K and 400K disks. As far as file system handling, there are limitations when dealing with 400K disks (which are MFS...

I don't think MacTerminal will do MacBinary or BinHex conversion on-the-fly - it will require a decoder on the Mac. MacBinary and BinHex were both methods devised for the transfer of Mac files (which incorporate a resource fork) via other platforms' file transfer methods such as the serial-line...

For myself, I prefer to be told about the crash. But for any user who may call me as a result of the crash, I prefer the silence. A software crash may well be a one-time fluke occurrence, but many end-users are easily unsettled by an error message and will get worried, panic, etc... An app...