Macintosh SE/30 and ROM GGLABS MACSIMM

[beddy]

Hello ! 

I bought a ROM GGLABS MACSIMM to 2 reasons : 

• Expand memory over 8Mb 
• Boot in Hard Drive mode with my Floppy Emul

The seller told me that IIsi ROM is flashed on it and tested. 

But something is curious : 

When I boot on floopy disk it's ok.

Now if I try with the hard drive, the message "Welcome to Macintosh" is showed but nothing happens. 

idem with Floppy Emul in hard drive mode. 

Notice : When  I boot on floppy disk I can't see any SCSI device.

Have an idea about my problem ?

Tks

Eddy   

 

[joethezombie]

Wow, I didn't know GGLABS copied doug's Mac ROM SIMM. Interesting...

Did you remove the MODE32 from the system first?

 

[Themk]

Also, you may need to perform the Gamba resedit hacks if you are running a system that requires them. It's also possible that you need to do a universal installation of your system software as well. http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/os8_se30.html

 

[hunter44102]

Would you have to do the same stuff with the Rominator II?  or does it work a different way?

 

[Themk]

It works the same way. Infact, even if you use an original Apple IIsi or IIfx ROM SIMM, you still have to perform the patches.

 

[theslownorris]

This may or may not help...

I had an SE/30 and bought a ROMINATOR II and had some very interesting results:

-It booted just fine from the ROM ([apple]+[r])

-It would refuse to boot from SCSI with any system higher than 7.1

-It would boot higher versions of 7 from floppy and would install without error, then simply refuse to boot to the device installed upon.

-I tried it with or w/o Mode32 in sys folder

-It had none of these problems booting from the original ROM

Seems like I found a posting somewhere online about differences in SE/30 logicboards (Dark vs light green). Mine it would seem was "dark" (and dated 1989). I'm writing this from a foggy memory so I hope it at the very least may point you in a helpful direction. Th machine was configged as such:

-128MB RAM

-Nothing in PDS slot

-SCS2SD (configged for ID2 and ID0)

Good luck.

 

[hunter44102]

Did you do the software patches that are required?

http://www.bigmessowires.com/mac-se30-with-upgraded-rom/

 

[Themk]

So, basically what I was suggesting above? You really will need to do the software patches... ResEdit isn't that difficult to use, and infact I think it is a very fun tool to use! If you need some help with ResEdit, I could help you.

 

[theslownorris]

Hey hunter44102! Great link! (for the sake of the original poster) Wish I had found it or it had been up when I was fiddlin' with the SE/30.

I gave all my old Macs to my Uncle Steve (Who really collects Macs) and have gone pretty much Amiga and Apple IIgs w/ a smatter ing of 8-bit A2, C64.

Only mac I have now is a very nice Plus Uncle Steve sent to live with me. (Was thinking about doing the ROMinator on it). The Plus sits with a single Atari ST as examples of "Other beloved 16-bit machines." Gotta draw the line somewhere, one could end up buried in old boxes and not even have time to actually turn one on and enjoy it.

 

[beddy]

Did you do the software patches that are required?

http://www.bigmessowires.com/mac-se30-with-upgraded-rom/

No I gonna read that 

tks everybody 

 

[beddy]

tks for all links,

I have read many interesting things.

have a nice week end 

Ed

 

[beddy]

Hi hunter44102 ! 

I solved my problem after read your link. 

Tks my mac se/30 can boot on Mac OS 7.5.5

Tks everyone for your help 

Eddy

 

 

[Themk]

Good to know all you needed to do was the gamba resedit patches.