Saving the SE and Plus

[bibilit]

I have seen a lot of floppy drives, very few were not serviceable.

You have collected LC's and IIsi's, you can swap floppy drives for a test (all of them are 1.44 Mb)... but honestly i will replace those caps and clean the board first before further tests, capacitors can lead to all kind of strange behaviour.

 

[Elfen]

I agree with Bibilit - clean and recap the board.

I would also question what type of floppy is that and where was it created? If it is a 1.4MB disk formatted as an 800K disk, it is not going to work 100% of the time, maybe 50% of the time will it work. And if it is formatted on a PC, then it will not work as an 800K disk. It may work as a high density 1.4MB disk, but PC formatted disks will not work as a Boot Disk.

If you have some other Mac with a floppy drive (any Mac II or LC system will work), you can make a generic System Disk for the SE/30 for with the other system.

 

[GroovyDrifter]

I've succesfully made boot floppies with a USB floppy drive attached to a G5 running Leopard, it won't work for 800k or 400k ones but got me moving with some reinstalls.

I had once a LC board as corroded as that SE and I cleaned it to try to fix it, but when I saw how little was left of the legs of some components... I actually have a SE/30 really covered in battery innards and it is so blue and green where it shoudn't be that I don't know if I'll ever wash it to see what it hides...

 

[ZaneKaminski]

Wellp, I was gonna wash the boards yesterday, but I couldn't. Boards will be washed sometime soon and I'll try and make some detailed videos as I did with the floppy.

I've succesfully made boot floppies with a USB floppy drive attached to a G5 running Leopard, it won't work for 800k or 400k ones but got me moving with some reinstalls.

I had once a LC board as corroded as that SE and I cleaned it to try to fix it, but when I saw how little was left of the legs of some components... I actually have a SE/30 really covered in battery innards and it is so blue and green where it shoudn't be that I don't know if I'll ever wash it to see what it hides...

Yeah, the process I used was to get the images in disk copy format, strip off the 84-byte disk copy header, leaving only the raw image, and then dd it to the disk. I did this on a newest-model MacBook Pro with a USB floppy drive, so it is still possible no matter your hardware. 400k and 800k are completely impossible; there is no software solution using a "PC" 1.44 meg drive. These drives can't vary their rotation speed like the old Mac drives.
 
I'm curious to see what's left of the through-hole components as well. Maybe I'll replace them if I can get another SE for parts.