On Mar 24, 2013, at 3:20 PM, DF wrote:

> I was given a Mac SE this weekend and amazingly it fired right up.  WOW!
> 
> However, it wouldn't recognize the internal hard drive.  It would boot from 
> an 800k floppy disk, but that was all.  I tried using one of the system tools 
> disks (I forget the name of it) to format the hard drive, but it reports that 
> no drives are present.  I found that odd, as the hard drive activity light 
> shows activity.  So, any recommendations on what I should be doing to 
> troubleshoot?  
> 
> I'm also brand spanking new to these old Macs.  If anyone has favorite 
> websites to point me to I would appreciate that as well.
> 

The stock HDSC Setup program doesn't recognize non-Apple ROMed hard drives.  
There is a patch for it which makes it work with any SCSI drive.  You should be 
able to find it with a web search.

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