I think an easier solution would be to take the HD out of the SE, and
put in in the G3. Then you can format it, and put it back in the SE.
But even easier would be using the G3 to make boot disks for the SE,
as Andrew suggested. :) You can download System 6 or 7 images off
Apple's site. If the SE doesn't have a superdrive, just tape over the
holes on the left side of a couple of floppies, then the G3 will
format them as 800K floppies. This worked for me to make 6.0.8 boot
disks for my Plus.
-Elliott
On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Andrew Jung wrote:
>
> Hello Alex,
> I don't think that you can connect two Macs together using SCSI as
> both computers would have the same ID and cause a conflict of some
> sort.
>
> Why not just make a boot floppy for your SE... unless you don't have a
> floppy on your Power Macintosh.
> Anyhow, I think you are asking for problems if you connect the two
> together. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Cheers, Andrew.
>
> On 12-Aug-09, at 1:46 PM, Alex wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I've recently bought a Power Macintosh G3 to solve the problem
>> reviving my Macintosh SE.
>>
>> I'd like to format the drive of the Macintosh SE without putting the
>> drive out of the Macintosh.
>>
>> Both the SE and the G3 have female D-SUB 25 connectors for external
>> SCSI devices. I have read that someone connected the both using a
>> SCSI
>> cable (D-SUB 25 to D-SUB 25). After having turned on both the Macs he
>> formatted the drive of the SE with his G3.
>>
>> I have a "Null-Modem cable" (I don't know the right expression in
>> Englisch, in German it is "Nullmodemkabel", if that helps :-D). This
>> cable has also two male D-SUB 25 connectors and was used to connect
>> two PCs using their parallel port to transfer files.
>>
>> So the question is: Can I use that cable to connect the both
>> computers? I think the cable is not exactly connected pin-by-pin.
>>
>> It's been a long time since I have been using PCs, so I don't know
>> whether it's possible or not.
>>
>> Kind regards from Germany,
>>
>> -- Alex
>>
>>>
>
>
> >
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