SE/30 HDD driver/formatting help

[tommijazz91]

Hi everyone.

I recently put a LaCie 8gb external HD into my SE/30, added the proper jumper for termination and installed various versione of system 7 in more than one partition (it has 5 partitions).

A month ago the HDD didn’t mount on the desktop, but using a Zip drive I somehow managed to install the Silverlining driver (it’s what I had at that time) and it worked! It feels fast even faster than it was before. 
But now I have a problem: with this new driver, in order to boot from another partition, I have to select it first in the Silverlining app and then with System Picker. Aside from this, it changed the hdd icons on the desktop, added a startup text and nothing more.

Is there any way to go back to how it was before without formatting the drive?

I also tried Blue Disc Manager, but it was way slower.

Thanks.

 

[LaPorta]

You could possibly try removing silverlining and install Apple drivers via a patched HD SC setup. Perhaps that would make it easier.

 

[tommijazz91]

I just tried with the patched version, but it sees one partition at a time (the boot partition), and the update button is not available.

Moreover, I can’t boot from floppy because the floppy drive is not working well...(it mounts but doesn’t format).

Any suggestions?

 

[LaPorta]

If it was me, I'm usually a fan of brutalist methods. Backup whatever you need to, and use HD SC setup to obliterate the drive and start from scratch with Apple drivers and formatting.

 

[tommijazz91]

Guess I'll do that in the end, it also seems the cleanest and safer way to do it.

Thanks!