attempting to put an SSD in a Classic II - not recognized

[blatboy]

Greetings. I'm attempting to put a 2GB SSD into my Classic II. (Evil plans were posted in another thread here.) I've initialized and cloned the drive via my Wallstreet (I picked up a USB bus for the card bay, and it works nice once I found the drivers) I have all the proper mounting equipment and adapters. So, to help brighten my day today, I figured I'd try to hook it up.

Seems the Classic II doesn't want to see the drive. I was able to access the drive via AppleTalk when it was hooked to the Wallstreet via USB, so I know it's set up correctly. I've checked my connections. I've tried different jumper combos for SCSI IDs on the SCSI/IDE Adapter. The jumpers on the drive itself are set to "master."

After looking at the old SCSI drive, I saw the Apple logo, and I remembered... didn't the Compact macs only work with drives blessed with the Apple seal of approval? (Some sort of EPROM or something...) Is that the case here, and is there a way around it?

Thanks!

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[mcdermd]

Formatting the drive with Lido (and other third-party utilities) or a hacked Apple HD/SC Setup utility were the ways to make an old Mac use a non-Apple drive as a boot device.

 

[blatboy]

U rok.

Thanks.

 

[blatboy]

Hmmmm. It seems Lido is scanning the bus for SCSI drives, but since I have my SSD connected via a USB Buscard, it doesn't see it. I also have a patched version of Apple HD SC Setup 7.3.5, which also scans the SCSI bus and won't recognize a drive on the USB cardbus.

I don't have a SCSI adapter that fits into the back of my wallstreet. (that I know of, that is...there may be one in my wife's boxes o stuff...)

I think I'm S.O.L. as far as finding a way to initialize this disk in a way that the Classic II will recognize it without finding a way to hook it up on the SCSI port, yes?

I do have an IDE to SCSI adapter, but I'll need another adapter to use it, either to hook it to the back of the Wallstreet or the Classic II...

Does this all sound like solid logic?

Thanks, and sorry for my noooooooobieness.