On Saturday, September 11, 2004, at 07:22 PM, Jessi wrote:
Jeff replied:
I would pull out an external floppy drive and boot the Mac from the System 6 floppy internally.
Put the Formatting utility of your choice into the external floppy drive. Try Lido and
APS and MicroMat.
Format to a 3:1 and without coming into contact with a PowerMac, you'll probably have
a bootable external hard drive.
Jeff G
That sounds like a great idea, Jeff. My Plus did come with an external floppy drive. Unfortunately, I don't know how to use it. The only cable I can find plugs into the back of the plus, but the floppy drive just sits there. There's a little button on the front, but nothing happens when I push it. No lights, no hum of power, nothing. I put a floppy disk in it and it's stuck and it doesn't show up on the Plus desktop.
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Assuming you're plugging it in the floppy-drive connector when the Mac is powered off
you look for a blip in the red light when the Mac powers up. If that's not happening,
then the external's not working.
<whine>
I'm getting frustrated because I keep on accumulating more mac stuff in the hope of simply getting the files I want onto the plus. Seriously, I am running out of room in my apartment. Half the stuff I get ends up not working... an SE/30 with a broken floppy drive... on and on... and I am not very good with hardware. It seems like it will take me a couple of years before I get the stuff I need to make the plus do what I want.
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Jess, the real joy of ownership in old Macs is the digging in to that old hardware to restore it to working condition. Keep on keepin' on. You'll be a guru helping newbies.
Thanks for listening, good people... I will persevere....maybe I should try to buy another, working external floppy drive. Or is there some power button or socket that I'm not finding on the one I have?
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Look for the light on the external to blip when the Plus searches for a boot disk. It will help to leave a disk out of the internal drive to give the Mac a chance to seek.
Gratefully yours,
Jessi
Jeff G
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