IIfx Hard Disk & Floppy problems

[IIfx]

Since I have come to the conclusion that the 40mb stock drive is most likely not usable, I will need to mount a 3.5 inch hard drive. Only problem is, I dont have the bracket and it does not look like the default bracket is universal.

You could say I am just insane for wanting to be so picky, but I dont want the drive sliding inside when I move it.

Just in case someone knows a trick to make the old 40mb drive, it spins fine. It does not make odd sounds. However the Apple SCSI tool does not want to format it, failing at the end of the process. Silverlining formatted it but System 7 install disks failed halfway though copying files due to a hard disk error. Then the mac bombed. Any other drive works fine, so its not a SCSI bus problem to my knowledge.

Now then, on to the original stock superdrive. Its pretty dead, spiting out any disk even if its good. I am sure it only needs a calibration or a cleaning, but on how to do so without destroying the drive I am never sure. (I used to have piles of spare Superdrives from past-away macs, but all my recent acquisitions have had dead superdrives. So now I have no spares in stock :/ )

Right now it has a superdrive borrowed from my IIsi, and it works fine.

 

[Bunsen]

I dont want the drive sliding inside when I move it.

Zip ties

 

[IIfx]

Zip ties

That is the most brilliant idea I have heard for a use of zip ties! Why did I not think of that? You have opened my zip-tie horizons to a wide range of products

So that eliminates the expense of yet another adapter XD

 

[jpolster2009]

my iifx has a 400mb hard drive. for being the KING of old macs they sure didnt pimp yours out much

 

[IIfx]

my iifx has a 400mb hard drive. for being the KING of old macs they sure didnt pimp yours out much

Sure, considering the base configuration cost $12000 with no extras, the previous owner most likely used a cheaper external hard disk.

I am guessing its use was as a glorified network workstation. A very glorified one at that.

To have a 400mb drive from the start would had added 5000 or so to the price tag, plus Nubus Video, Monitor, Keyboard & Mouse, Software, and you have an investment of well over 50000 by the end of it.

How on earth did people afford this is my question.

 

[LC_575]

The IIfx wasn't positioned as a home computer - it was a high-performance workstation. The people who needed such power at the time could well enough afford it.

 

[IIfx]

The IIfx wasn't positioned as a home computer - it was a high-performance workstation. The people who needed such power at the time could well enough afford it.

Unless a semi-rich enthusiast owned this mac before me. And Apple most likely ripped of on hard disk prices. A cheaper fast external would had been better anyways.

 

[Tempest]

One of the SuperDrives in my IIfx is acting flaky. It will spit out a disk even if it's good, but usually it will destroy the disk in the process (make it need to be reformatted). It might just need some cleaning though as the person I got it from said it worked. Is there a simple way to do this? A alcohol dipped Q-Tip perhaps?

Tempest