I was imagining something along the lines of what I do with old laptops, by using a 2.5" to SD card converter (about $10-$20, depending) and the maze of converters... but I never got around to installing the SD card thingummer into my Classic (Got lazy, and didn't have the money) but now I have added a second idea to the whole maze for this small contraption: Placing the SD card converter in an easy-to-access location from the outside of the system, thereby allowing me to remove the disk and add more data to it from my iMac G3 collection. (I did the same with a G3 iMac, allows making multiple installs simple, since all you need are multiple SD cards (which are plentiful)
Another solution that I've known to work is a SCSI Zip drive, and install the OS on that. (100mb may not seem like much, but it's a heckuvalot more than the 20\40mb ones in the AIO Macs... -------------------------------------------------- From: "D. Finnigan" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 7:12 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Looking for something different > > http://68kmla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12050 > > Solid State Drive (SSD) in SE/30 > > Hi all. > > Just wanted to share my experiences on SSD's (Solid State Drives) and my > SE/30. > > My SE/30's stock Apple drive was getting *very* noisy indeed, and a > replacement 9gig IBM didn't improve things at all. > > A while ago on eBay, I came across a vendor flogging 2.5", 8gig IDE SSD's, > from whom I bought two drives, I thought I'd use on my Thinkpad 701c > (Butterfly model). > > However, the IBM didn't recognize the drives, and I bin'ed them for a > while. > > Then I thought of my SE/30, and I dug the drives out again, went to eBay > and bought an ACARD SCSI <> IDE converter board (not labled ACARD, but > it's > the same card from an OEM vendor). Also, I had an IDE40 <> IDE44 adaptor > already. > > So, I went to install an SSD in the SE/30, with the IDE40 <> IDE 44 > attached to the drive, and the ACARD scsi <> IDE adaptor connected to the > scsi ribbon and IDE converter. > > Booted the SE/30 from a boot floppy, and the drive was ... - *not* > recognized by Apple HD Setup Tools... > Knowing full well that all this conversion of standards on two adaptor > boards inevitably introduces a plethora of potential errors, coupled with > the previous "success" from the IBM, > I thought the project was stillborn. However, the next day I remembered > the "hacked" HD Tool from Apple I had, and booted the machine again. This > time, the SE/30 *did* > recognize the drive, and started the initialization process. Hours later, > it failed. Some nonsensical error pertaining to the co-processor was > presented to me. > > Undaunted, I tried again - and again. Same result *every* single time!!! > > Poking about the 9 gig IBM drive, I byu now had installed in an Apple 20SC > enclosure, I found a Syquest SCSI tool, which also recognized the drive. > And what's more, it had a "format"-button... > > So - I tried an "easy setup" of my SSD, and waited yet again. > > And lo and behold, this time the format finished without a hick-up. I now > have the SSD formated in a two (2) gig partition, holding System 7.5.3 and > apps. The rest is still unformated. > > So, long story short - I now have an SE/30 with SSD - quiet as a "Fat > Mac", with all the wisper-quiet storage one could ever dream of in a 68K > Macintosh. > > The system is configured thus: > > SE/30 > Stock ROM (have IIfx and IIsi ROM, but not installed) > 68meg RAM (4x1 and 4x16) > System, 7.5.3 on > 8gig IDE SSD with dual conversion (SSD is an industrial grade Smart > Modular Technologies, I got off eBay at 40us$...) > Asante MacCon IIsi/se30 ethernet > Micron Xceed with grayscale > Apple 20SC external HD > > And it's just a bundle of joy to work with! Also, please observe that I'm > talking true SSD with an SSD controller built in the drive, and *not* an > IDE <> Compact Flash solution. > > Cheers from Denmark, > > /Anders > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
