Tom2112
Well-known member
I recently acquired a number of classic compact Macs, including a couple Mac SE's. As I was going through the process of doing initial function checks on them - to determine which ones worked, which didn't, and removing PRAM batteries - I found that the Mac SEs without harddrives would boot just fine as long as I did NOT have an external SCSI device connected to them. But when I booted them with my RaSCSI connected externally, they would start to boot then give a Sad Mac with a error code that would normally indicate memory issues. (0000 000E 0000 FFFF)
At first I thought it was an isolated issue, but after the second and third unit to do this, I had a trend. Then I started to think, maybe I'm doing something wrong. So I tried other external SCSI devices, inlcuding my MacSD and my SCSI2SD v6. I got the same problem. I started to think maybe it was because the internal SCSI bus wasn't terminated with a drive (as there's not even a SCSI cable plugged in internally for these). But that doesn't make sense, because without the external SCSI device, the Mac boots just fine. (I was using my FloppyEMU to boot them, because they didn't have an internal HDD.)
So I'm at a loss. I figured I'd ask the experts here. Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Tom
At first I thought it was an isolated issue, but after the second and third unit to do this, I had a trend. Then I started to think, maybe I'm doing something wrong. So I tried other external SCSI devices, inlcuding my MacSD and my SCSI2SD v6. I got the same problem. I started to think maybe it was because the internal SCSI bus wasn't terminated with a drive (as there's not even a SCSI cable plugged in internally for these). But that doesn't make sense, because without the external SCSI device, the Mac boots just fine. (I was using my FloppyEMU to boot them, because they didn't have an internal HDD.)
So I'm at a loss. I figured I'd ask the experts here. Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Tom