SE/30 infinite boot loop or rattling floppy drive(?)

[3lectr1cPPC]

From the official website at https://bluescsi.com/v2:

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Which credit do you feel is missing?

I’ve been told that they put their own copyright headers on essentially unmodified firmware code from ZuluSCSI. Along with that, the section you mentioned crediting ZuluSCSI is the only place where it’s present, it’s absent from their GitHub as far as I’ve been able to tell, and also, what does “ZuluSCSI’s SCSI2SD” even mean. Strange wording. If anything it implies that they’re crediting the SCSI2SD, not Zulu which is different.
In any event, I really don’t want to derail this thread into yet another Blue Vs. Zulu SCSI thread.
Edit: Did find this: https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/commit/84d204679adc17123eac568e7c6f8ab399d9d783
Whole situation is a mess to figure out. @aperezbios can probably clarify.

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Updated my batteries page with the images you provided: https://macdat.net/important_issues/remove_your_batteries.html

 

[Berenod]

I'm pretty sure I just liberated an SE/30 of one of those black, sort of no brand batteries...

Just removed the very exact same one from a SE/30
Only mine is 11 months older
So, slightly less extreme rare

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Hmm…. I wonder who made these. Has anyone seen one leak?
Edit: guess I’ll have to update the page again with 1988-89

 

[Berenod]

Mine sure looks good, no leaks, but totally empty (0,7V)

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Hey, that’s more than 0V. Give the poor guy some credit, it’s 30 years old!

 

[Berenod]

Hey, that’s more than 0V. Give the poor guy some credit, it’s 30 years old!

Well, I do have several of the soldered on Varta's in SE's still bang on 3.6V!
And usually they do not tend to leak...

Still, the do get the immediate snip, why take the risk!

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Yeah, those are pretty good. Have heard one single account of them leaking though, so you can’t trust them.

 

[lma114]

[…] the three thin long black components next to the SCSI connector (see image), […] have some wiggle.

[…] I still have some suspicion that the thin long black things from the picture are involved, but haven’t really been able to make consistent evidence for it.

Does anyone know what these black things are for? (The disk is still working )

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

Resistor packs - likely to do with SCSI termination.

 

[lma114]

Thanks! So not something that would prevent the HDD from spinning up?

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

I’d think not, but I’m not positive. I’m not an expert in SCSI by any means.

 

[lma114]

Thanks! That would at least explain why I wasn't able to consistently make it (not) spin up when moving them.