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. -- -- ----- 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 subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
