The LEM Swap List or Ebay can be sources for good 800k blank disks. The Apple Old Software website offers System 6.0.8 boot and/or install floppies in 800k size. You have to have the right version of Disk Copy to turn the files into floppy-sized images.
And, if it all just frustrates you too much, one of the listers here could send you disks if all you wanted to do was boot your SE to play with it. To move ahead with the hard drives, the SE likes it's hard drives formatted with a 2:1 interleave. 2 spins to one read. If the hard drives you're trying to use were in newer Macs, then that can cause an unseen hard drive. And yes, it's a little easier to solve the hard drive problems with a newer Mac as opposed to fighting the third-party utility file sizes in 800k of disk space. Many newer Macs have SCSI external connectors for external hard drive use. And these machines have 1.4MB floppy drives allowing you to use more new-ish drive erasing utilities like Lido 7.56. If you search, you'll find old removable drive utilities like Micronet that will format and mount a SCSI hard drive. There's HDT Toolkit for SCSI hard drives. Norton Utilities 1.x and 2.x forSCSI hard drives. All-in-all, I would plug in the Conner to AC power and listen for it to start spinning and stay spinning. If it won't do that, none of the above will matter. Jeff ________________________________ From: Triston Mccarthy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 7:19 PM Subject: Re: Non -apple hard disk drives. By the way it already has two internal 800k drives. which is why I cant use any third party software right now as I cannot make my own. Getting on the internet with my 26 year old mac is possible yet not probable. > > >________________________________ > 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. 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