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I have never once been able to enter test mode on this SE/30, or an SE. I've only recently come to understand that a Sad Mac tone must be heard, in order for the Test Mode to work at all. I plugged in an SE and a genuine Mac 8-pin COM cable, straight through to the SE/30 board, hit reset a...

Found it, thanks! https://www.gryphel.com/c/sw/sysutils/diskfaid/ Also going to try making a System 6.0.8 .hda with Basilisk II, and include this and Zterm.

I'll try both SE's, but no Sad Mac when connecting the COM cable, and pressing either of the two buttons on the side, which on all three boards does Reset when pushed.

Thanks for the reply! The HDD from this SE 5011 never had a problem with turning the platters, this one sounded like the head was stuck on first boot. Probably scratched the platters pretty good where the head was stuck, and then forced to spin again. The motor is great on this 5011 HDD, but I...

I'm having a difficult time with the Test Mode too. Was able to get the Transmit Line Feed, and Local echo setup in the Terminal tab of Tera Term, it looks like it behaves and works correctly now when pressing *A and *5, but I get no answer from an SE or SE/30, using my newer PC and Prolific...

After watching the ADB video, I had to do it differently, as I don't have a Y, or a berg connector. These are the jumper settings I used - the cloning process is able to be run solely over the 50-pin SCSI cable, using the SE PSU, or external PSU: PWR-ON=closed, TRM_PWR=closed, both Initiator...

An older friend from work just gave me his SE M5011, apparently he has no attachment to it, and didn't want to deal with selling it. I had told him of my recent success of an SE M5010 restoration, and of another work in progress with a fussy SE/30. So he figured I could use some more old Mac...

Thanks for the help, the PDS slot is much easier to measure. I'll go over all this thoroughly this weekend. I gave that pinout a try, and there is still no answer from either the SE or SE/30. With TeraTerm setup like the ADB video: Can't believe how difficult this has been for some reason...

Will check it out.

Which address lines are you suggesting I should measure? Thanks.

Will dig out the scope today, it's buried good, but really wanted this cable to work.

I have a working SE, that is also not answering to the commands shown in the video. *A - for ASCII mode *5 - to run the test *R - No response from the SE or SE/30. I'm now wondering if my DB9 was wired backwards, because I'm using a female connector, and the diagram shows the male pinout...

Making this Tech Step cable has not been easy, still not getting a connection from either the SE or SE/30. As verified with a continuity test. DB9 = Din-8 pin color 4. DTR = 1. Black 8. CTS = 2. Brown 3. TXD = 3. Red 5. GND = 4. Orange 2. RXD = 5. Yellow 7. RTS = 6. Green 1. DCD = 7. Blue 6...

Amazon delivered me an open-envelope today, that was empty, my DIN 8-pin cable is floating around in the back of an Amazon truck - somewhere. The replacement cable will be here tomorrow, was hoping to get this going today.

Going to try this:

Thanks for that, but they want $14 shipping, or about $40 total for that cable - that I may use this one time only. But I should be able to make any RS-232 COM cable I need now, with all of those adapters and ends I've bought, thinking my cable had all of the wires inside. The 8-wire cable...

This is exactly what the problem was, this is a 5-wire cable with 8-pin and DB9 connectors. Ordered an 8-wire cable this time, should be here tomorrow. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D415MLGV

That's a good idea, to check my current cabling with the working SE. Might as well do that, just to be certain the cables work, will do. I did recently complete the restoration of a C128/1571 drive over at lemon64; I got bit by the Commodore bug again when a generous and really cool older...

This is a good sub. https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/232-XK680MEFCSN35X40 Took that from the parts list maintained by JDW, it's always up to date: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18X-EN67lQdZ2crCBAlkHrtqCCoJK6cLw_BkIYdlJvgs/edit?gid=0#gid=0

I do have that SE, it's like new, but don't have the straight 8-pin cable. But the cables I have should work, have the 8-pin to DB9 on the left, DB9 Null modem cable just in case the Rx Tx isn't crossed, and then this USB COM port, that was used in the past with Cisco RJ-45 COM ports. In the...