Recent content by kingchops

That's pure gold, I've never seen their site before.  Who says you need a "fancy" website to be successful.

It may be  the head spring problem, both my SE/30 and Colour Classic had this problem.  The issue is that the top head doesn't push down on the disk enough.  Read my post here about this problem and how I fixed it: http://tkc8800.com/post/macintosh-sony-superdrive-head-spring-repair

You're in luck.  I've been meaning to remove the hard drive from my SE/30 as I want to swap it with one from another machine.  So while I have it apart I can take some high res pics of the E/Si30.  I should be able to get this done either tonight or tomorrow.  I'll post them up when ready.

I highly recommend the Floppy Emu, I've been using one for quite a while.  I have a page dedicated to 400k disk images, you'll find most of these will work: http://tkc8800.com/post/macintosh-128k-512k-400k-disk-images

I use FTP to transfer files to/from my old Macs.  My everyday computer is a Windows 10 machine, I use the built in ftp server under IIS.  I then run Fetch FTP on the Mac side.  Fetch is great for preserving resource fork during transfer.  For uploads it will automatically archive files with...

Yes the Linksys worked but my version required DD-WRT to be installed.  DD-WRT allows for the configuration on one or more ports to 10mbps and half-duplex.  Just used it on the SE/30 today to install some stuff, It's been working perfectly. Just for the record if you want to flash the WRT54G...

Full details and lots of pics about this latest SE/30 restoration on my blog here: http://tkc8800.com/post/mac-se-30-restoration-and-networking Thanks again for the assistance.

What version of the WRT54G do you have?  The one I got to work with the SE/30 and DD-WRT was a WRT54G v1.1.  The other one that I got off the same guy was a WRT54GL, not sure about the version on that one.

Thanks, this worked!  I went into VLAN and set port 4 with those options, port light now lights up on router.  I can now connect to my local FTP server using Fetch on the SE/30.  I managed to buy two Linksys WRT54G's for $10 each.  So a great solution. Just for the record I did switch to the...

Are you referring to a Linksys WRT54G? I got my hands on one, it has DD-WRT firmware installed, but still no go, SE/30 doesn't show up on the port.  Is there anything special you need to do to get it to recognize a 10mbit nic?

Thanks for the responses regarding the switch/hub.  After doing some reading I found that these old network cards don't broadcast their speed and duplex to the router.  Apparently back in those days 10mbsp was enough for everyone, so they assumed a 10mbps connection.  Therefore modern...

Good point, I never considered that it might be the hub.  I've got a few different hubs I can test with, I'll try them out.  Most of the hubs that I have are fairly new, I have an older Netgear that's about 8 years old, it might work with that.  Would using an ethernet transceiver on the 15 pin...

I recently acquired an SE/30 with a DaynaPORT E/si30 network card.  I've found the drivers and installed them ok but I can't get the machine onto a network.   The diagnostics utility reports the card is installed ok and the green light on the card starts to flash when I plug the network cable...

Not sure about ram, but I recently did a Mystic upgrade, write up here for those interested: http://tkc8800.com/post/macintosh-mystic-colour-classic

Nice score, especially considering all the extra stuff that came with it.  +1 on the hard drive, open the lid and manually rotate the platter and wiggle the head you may find that it comes to life.  I recently revived and SE/30 drive simply by doing that.  I recently got a Colour Classic myself...