I'm pretty sure that if his G3 has external SCSI, it's gotta have
internal SCSI, right? Because there was the G3 minitower/desktop, and
I know those have a floppy drive, and internal SCSI, then the G3 blue
& white, and it doesn't have built in external SCSI.
Alex, perhaps you could enlighten us as to which G3 model you have?
-Elliott
On Aug 12, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Andrew Jung wrote:
>
> My thought and wonder however to Alex's situation is that his Power
> Macintosh does not have internal SCSI, perhaps only IDE.
> And my guess is that he doesn't have access to a USB floppy disk.
>
> Is there a way to write Mac floppies from images on a PC?
> I know I can from my newer Macs, but trying to think of a way to help
> this guy.
>
> Cheers, Andrew.
> On 12-Aug-09, at 3:06 PM, Cyrus Griffin wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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