Not necessarily. In an external enclosure, all manner of crud can befall a hard-drive-to-Mac connection. I start with seeing what the internal hard drive's SCSI ID number is. Get Info on the selected hard drive does it.
I then remove the back of the Mac, an SE in your case, and hook the hard drive to the SCSI cable and power connector, leaving the drive laying outside the SE over the metal frame. DO NOT GET NEAR THE PAPER/ELECTRIC PLUG ON THE BACK OF THE PICTURE TUBE. You can easily pop off the tiny glass nib and discharge the existing vacuum ruining the tube. If it boots to a floppy with System 6, and shows up on the desktop, then the issue is SCSI ID. If that external box has a switch, I set it from SCSI ID 3(typical CD ROM number) through SCSI 6. Knowing the internal drive's ID first makes this part far easier. Just don't set the external drive to that SCSI number. If the drive stays invisible, you need to format it with HD/SC Setup, or a useful utility like Lido 7.56. Here an external floppy disk drive is handy as you need one drive for the boot software and the other for the Lido, etc. Jeff ________________________________ From: Triston Mccarthy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 5:02 PM Subject: Non -apple hard disk drives. I have a non apple version of the quantum pro drive lps 270s. It still works and I have tested it but in an external enclosure the drive will not work with my Macintosh SE. I also have a Connor CP3040a I tried it in the enclosure it did work but only for about 5 minutes after that it just completely crapped out and wouldn't re initialize. I would assume I probably needs a non Apple Hard Disk Utility to actually connect the drive and be able to mount it. -- -- ----- 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. -- -- ----- 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.
