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You're completely right - overall I don't think the Noctua replacement is worth it. I swear by them in my modern builds, but for something like the SE it's not a good choice. All that said, I'm not sure what the specific thermal concerns are with the compact Macs. Do specific components put out...

It's a lower flow rate, JDW measured a bunch of fans in this video: Honestly it's still a little noisy, the case echoes the sound so much that it didn't make as much of a difference as I had hoped. The HDD was a much bigger source of noise though, so disconnecting that was good enough for me.

I put a Noctua in mine, not too difficult, but you do have to remove the analog board for it. It's quite a bit quieter, but I believe it also pushes less air than stock. Depending on your setup, that could be an issue, but as long as you're not leaving it on for a long time I can't imagine it'd...

I’ve tried GB68k on my SE/30, and it’s a very unpleasant experience. Games are really more slideshows than games.

Wow - that's a fantastic mod! Here's the only build I've tried: (Please don't be mad at me for what I did to that poor Mac... it was 10 years ago and I was young and foolish!)

This (or for a ZIP drive) could be a neat third-party mod, for something like MacEffects.

Is this a BlueSCSI-specific issue? The images work fine on my BlueSCSI. I'm not sure how they were formatted, I believe I got the images pre-formatted online. I might check that out if I can't get this figured out, thanks. Haha well in that forum post it was still an SE - I swapped the board...

This is a continuation of an old thread: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/macintosh-se-wont-boot-system-7.792/ tl;dr - Booting System 7 off of my BlueSCSI didn't work. I got a RaSCSI instead, and that worked. Since then I put the BlueSCSI away and didn't think about it too much. I've...

How are you connecting the computer to the router? Using AAUI-ethernet, an expansion card, etc. I'm assuming you're using OpenTransport (I'm not sure if MacTCP is still supported in 7.6.1?), and if so you can try this diagnostic tool: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/ottool-121 Edit: This also...

While I'm not familiar with NuBus cards in general, they are fortunately pretty easy to find and someone else should be able to help recommend specific cards. Is this your only Mac? A bridge Mac is very helpful, but don't worry if you don't have one, as there's still plenty of ways to get stuff...

I still haven't tried it on mine - it sounds like it needs some reworking before they'll move it into the main branch, and I haven't bothered to switch branches to try it

You're correct - I should have spoken more accurately/confidently.

To answer some of your questions: The Mac Plus has a weird/non-standard SCSI implementation that doesn't provide enough power for devices, so I believe you do need external power for all SCSI devices The Mac Plus will work great with System 6. Depending on how much RAM it has, System 7 might...

I reached out to OWC, and here's what they suggested: I tried both these things (not the rubber eraser, as I couldn't find one at home, but everything else), as well as trying to clean the iBook's pins, but it's still only reading the stick as 64MB. I'm not sure if I'll actually pursue this...

That's surprising! 1.5 instead of 4.5 is quite a large difference. Does the clock run slow?

Looks like we killed it. oops

I don't have much to add here, just chiming in to say that PDS cards for SE or SE/30 are usually rare enough that (depending on price) it's probably worth buying just for that.

I’m formatting all the disks because they came IBM formatted, but the point of this project is to transfer data using the SCSI drive and a USB drive - are you saying that doing this may cause issues?

Side note about ejecting - is that eject button supposed to work? Because as far as I can tell, I can only eject from software. Unless there’s a trick to it?

Correction - it should only require 1A, that's what the adapter is rated for. Not sure why I said 2A. Oops - already got 4 cheap disks off eBay, haha. I did get a new/sealed one as well, so I'll try to just use that one. Thanks for the advice!