modulusshift
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I have an SE/30 with no hard drive (courtesy of jupo on these forums, whom I can't speak highly enough of), and a Quantum Fireball TM 2110s from an external SCSI enclosure. It seemed like a good match to me, so I installed it in the SE/30. I'm running off the System Startup disk from 6.0.8, and the Apple HD SC Setup copy on there didn't recognize it. So I grabbed the patched Apple HD SC Setup that's floating around, and dropped that on the floppy. That recognized the drive just fine, so I tried to initialize it, and it fails every time. The test button passes the drive successfully, but initializing fails with either an "unable to verify format" after about a minute, or a "unable to write to drive" after at least 15 minutes. I'm lost as to what to do here, and the troubleshooting for this is very sparse online.
The computer does need recapping, it already has only very faint audio and occasionally wavy video on the right side, but there doesn't seem to be anything going wrong during this initializing process. Any thoughts, anyone?
The computer does need recapping, it already has only very faint audio and occasionally wavy video on the right side, but there doesn't seem to be anything going wrong during this initializing process. Any thoughts, anyone?