Well, the drive in the SE actually works and the G3 _has_ a floppy drive. But I asked whether that cable is able to connect the two Macs, especially for installing System 7.5.x.
-- Alex
Am 14.08.2009 um 01:05 schrieb nyder:
>
> I'm a little lost here.
>
> Does the floppy not work in the SE? Or no floppy in the G3?
>
> Seems a bit complicated for what could be done very easy.
>
>
>
> On Aug 12, 4:49 pm, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 1) If you get far enough a source of 25 pin D style SCSI cables is
>> someone who still has a Zip drive. They were delivered with such a
>> cable. Anything wired for RS232 serial or peecee parallel port is
>> doomed to failure.
>>
>> 2) Some Macs - all portables I'm afraid - had a way to start them
>> up in "target" mode. That way a machine could become what you want
>> with its disk being available to a desktop box. A target machine
>> had to be sure that it didn't respond to requests on SCSI 7. Device
>> 7 is always the computer if there is only one SCSI bus and that
>> would surely be a conflict with two fully operating motherboards.
>> This 8500 has two SCSI busses and might connect the way you want on
>> the second - external - bus where the target disk could remain ID-0
>> without opening the box.
>>
>> --
>> --> As a citizen of the USA if you see a federal outlay expressed
>> in $billion then multiply it by 4 to approximate your share
>> expressed in dollars. <--
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