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Well, the fuses are fine, I plugged in a Zip drive with active termination into the rear scsi port with no luck, then I got out a magnifying glass and took a look at the scsi controller.  Looks like when the previous owner recapped the logic board they didn’t deal with the corrosion damage from...

Yeah, you can see the SCSI controller in this pic of my board (back from the happier days when it was running)

Replacing a 44 pin SMD chip like NCR53C80 is definitely well beyond my comfort level, soldering equipment, and skills. Replacing the fuses I could do. There are 2 there .. F2 and F3. One or both? What are the specs of the fuse? They look fine to me, I don’t know how fuses like that look when...

I can’t figure this one out.  I have a socketed SE/30 with a daystar powercache 40mhz accelerator in it that suddenly stopped finding the hard drive. There is nothing wrong with the drive as it works fine in my other (unsocketed) SE/30, and it won’t find my scsi2sd when I tried that. It boots...

When the PRAM battery is dead, Wallstreets can take a long time to boot unless it has been left plugged in -- mine certainly does. Try letting it sit for a while and see if it works. 

Where did you order the PRAM cells from? I've been trying to find a place that will ship to Canada that has batteries for less than US$14 a cell. I will just have to put up with resetting the clock and a slow start if it is going to cost US$84 plus shipping to rebuild the thing...

It is the 40MHz . . . the label was worn off the crystal and I originally thought it was a 50, but testing proved otherwise.  Yeah, 32-bit clean will be nice. I have 20mb in there now with mode32. I tried to swap the 32mb out of my other SE/30 but those simms did not work in the socked board...

I have been playing around with my new SE/30 with a Daystar SE/30 Powercache for the socketed motherboard, and I have a few questions about what is needed to run it. I have OS 7.5.5 on my computer, and I installed the Daystar Power Central v1.3 control panel, which is the only one I could find...

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I used zip ties to hold the hard drive to the floppy bracket on mine that was missing the HD sled. Just slid them through the top of the FD bracket. The HD shifts a little bit, a couple mm at most, but it seems to hold it pretty well. 

Yeah, I'm going to have to find a long term solution to that broken clip someday. I'm not afraid of soldering, but my equipment and skills are probably not up to replacing it.

Phew. Just badly seated ram. One clip is broken on one ram stick.

Oh, for crying out loud. It was working fine, but now that I've put it back together I am getting chimes of death and horizontal stripes.

It's missing the top sled for the HD though... the HD was just sitting there loose, on top of a piece of plastic. Good thing it never got bumped over as it probably would have taken out the tube...

I picked up an SE/30 with keyboard and mouse off kijiji today. The seller was a young guy, and wanted CAN$140 for the thing. The ad said it was upgraded with a 2GB and worked great. I noticed it had an Ethernet card and looked clean and in nice shape, so I decided to check it out. The guy said...

So, I got my SDFloppy II in the mail today. It is an excellent piece of hardware and very well made. The construction and finish is really impressive, with a nice metal case. I plugged it into the internal floppy connector on my IIc so I could boot off it, and it works great. Just plug and play.

I'll post a review of it when it arrives.

No  concerns, I was just wondering if anyone had any opinions on it before I bought one. I ended up buying one anyways, so I guess I'll find out for myself when it shows up!

You could always try E6000 glue http://eclecticproducts.com/products/e6000.html Dries clear, and permanently bonds pretty well anything to anything. 

Anyone have any experience with the SDFloppy II? http://a2heaven.com/webshop/index.php?rt=product/product&path=73&product_id=124 I have one of BMOW's Floppy Emus for my macs which I like a lot, but I was thinking of getting one of these to use as a dedicated floppy emulator for my IIc.