Oops! The disk image for King's Quest disk 1 came back with errors & ADTPRO labels the disk as being "I/O Errors." I have a utility that will try to get bad blocks out on my hard drive.
ADT PRO in conjunction with the proper null modem cables & a USB to serial connector driver from Prolific (PL-2303) I managed to eventually make disk images into working disks! Yay!
I thought it was SCSI that I had gotten from the Mac but someone mentioned above that it's a IDE hard drive on the Packard Bell. In an earlier post I mentioned how my fuses on the LC III were burned out because of plugging a parallel port zip drive into the SCSI drive.
I don't know why I'm...
Anyone know what I can do with it? I bought a 50pin USB adaptor but it doesn't fit. I tried installing it into my Packard Bell 486 machine but the pin outs are different. I'll look up the drive & see if I can find some diagrams or something.
I'm getting the disk with a question mark in the middle of it. It won't recognize the hard drive. ... 8-o I only spent ten bucks on the computer... but I hate spending money on mistakes.
It's a LC III Macintosh (the computer). I finally had the chance to boot her up today because I got the VGA-DB15 pin adapter for my monitor. Fire her up, she loads OS 7.1. Fine. Turned her off, plugged in the SCSI zip drive. Turn her on... nothing.
Another thing is she's got an ethernet jack...