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While cleaning through some boxes, I came across my LaCie Joule drive. It was the first hard drive I purchased for a Mac at a time when I didn't have a Mac. I used it for a few years in graduate school, and seem to recall that it had some problems after several years. Tonight, I found a standard...

Love the form factor on this Quadra. I remember drooling over these Macs when they were new.

Woohoo!! Congrats! :)  

Thanks! It's good to know that there are options. Ideally, I'd love to swap between Mac SE/30, Mac SE and my Apple IIGS. I don't mind having to shut machines off before switching input devices.

Is there an ADB keyboard switcher available that will let me use one ADB keyboard / mouse between my two classic 68k Macs? 

I ran it from my FloppyEMU - it's been incredibly useful to have for such tasks. 

Found it! :) I removed the TE jumper on the drive (a Quantum Trailblazer). While the machine was open, I took the opportunity to also install a battery holder and add a new CMOS battery. The SCSI2SD has software termination already set. When I reassembled the Mac, it recognized all my drives...

No worries @LaPorta. Where might the internal drive's terminator be located at?

Thanks, @Realitystorm - I suspect that to be the case now. This morning,  I unplugged the SCSI2SD and the Mac's internal hard drive took over.  So the drive works. I'll re-run the SCSI2SD utility and track down the internal terminator option.

I finally have my SE/30 booting off of my SCSI2SD. The problem now is that the working internal SCSI platter-based drive no longer spins up or mounts. A few questions: what is the default SCSI ID for an internal platter drive on the Mac SE/30? If I have assigned SCSI ID 1, 2 and 3 to the three...

Solved! I used Lido 7.56 to initialize the three volumes. I recommend "Easy Setup", which formats each volume for the Mac and lets you assign a customized icon for each of your volumes.

This thread helped with the same issue. Lido was a snap to initialize my SCSI2SD SD card. I used Lido's Easy Setup to format and assign a custom icon for each of my three volumes.

Thanks @LaPorta - I was able to move forward by not running the SCSI2SD-monitor utility. Another issue: When I ran the standalone SCSI2SD-util, it recognized the SCSI2SD card just fine. I've set three 1.83GB partitions (emulating a Seagate ST225 drive), each with their own SCSI ID (1,2, and 3)...

I received my SCSI2SD v5.5 (external model). I'm plugging it in, via USB to my Macbook Pro. When I run scsi2sd-util, I'm getting "Error Opening HID device USB_04b4...". I've googled for answers and have not found anything. Can someone tell me what's happening and how to fix this error? Thanks!

Excellent! That's the version I'll go with then. Thanks! :)

What an awesome deal! I look forward to reading your updates on the IIx! 

Cool. I've been waffling on whether or not I want to keep the SCSI2SD internal or external. How is the build quality on the external SCSI2SD?

Very cool. Which Macs will this work on?

Are there any known issues I should be aware of with the Intertial SCSI2SD-V5.5 (the external drive that plugs into the SCSI port on the Mac)? Or is it pretty simpatico with this model Mac?  I have an internal version on the Mac SE and it works fine. Thanks!

Some follow-up on my dilapidated SE/30 project. I was able to successfully test the CRT, floppy drive, analog board, and PSU in the Mac SE/30 with a Mac SE FDHD logic board pulled from one of my other compact Macs. Sadly, the Quantum hard drive that came with the Mac is as dead as a door nail. ...