Well, the SE/30 should have a built-in HD, but it could be corrupted, or just broken. You can boot on a floppy, and see if it recognizes the HD. You can also boot on an external SCSI drive, but you still have to boot on a floppy to install the system to the external drive. SCSI hard drives can be found, but with increasing difficulty.
Elliott (Formerly Cyrus) -------------------- Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:49 PM, jonahb wrote: > > Hi all, > > I recently found a Mac SE/30 on the street and brought it home. Now > I'm trying to get it to boot. I plug it in and flip the switch. After > a few seconds, it displays a gray screen with the black cursor in the > top left corner, and there it stays ... forever. > > A few notes: there's no disk in the drive, and I haven't plugged in a > mouse, keyboard, or anything else (except the power, of course). > > How do I get it to boot? Do I need a floppy or a peripheral? It is > hosed? > > Thanks for any help, > > Jonah Burke > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
