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Macintosh Se/30 with SuperDrive will not work...

Submitted by luckydog on September 17, 2006 - 5:43pm. Hardware Hacks | 680x0 Macs and Lisa

ok i just recently i put a Super Drive CD-ROM in my mac SE/30 and i had nothing but probelms it will not fid the os will not detect the floppy disk so what do i do...

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huwhahuh?

Submitted by coius on September 20, 2006 - 9:41pm.

a superdrive CD-ROM? or is that a SuperDrive floppy? A superdrive floppy does 400k, 800k, and 1.44MB (as well as the rarely found 2.88) Floppy discs.
To fit a superdrive, it would be a DVD-+RW on an IDE chain, and the SE/30 only has scsi. Please tell me how you have accomplished this?

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Isn't there something about c

Submitted by Jon on September 20, 2006 - 9:49pm.

Isn't there something about cutting a wire to use a manual inject vs auto inject? I remember reading about swapping floppy drives, but a quick Google brought me nothing.

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Re: huwhahuh?

Submitted by Eudimorphodon on September 20, 2006 - 10:10pm.
coius wrote:
A superdrive floppy does 400k, 800k, and 1.44MB (as well as the rarely found 2.88) Floppy discs.

For the record, the floppy Superdrive doesn't support 2.88MB disks. Not that it matters, given that they're rarer then hen's teeth.

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Oh...

Submitted by coius on September 20, 2006 - 10:43pm.

I thought they did because of the sony mechanism. Oh well.. Not like I will be using any. But still, i thought they did. Ok, well I will no longer tell people that.

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Re: Oh...

Submitted by Eudimorphodon on September 21, 2006 - 2:57pm.
coius wrote:
I thought they did because of the sony mechanism.

The original 400k Macintosh drive was a "Sony Mechanism". They invented the physical form factor. ;^)

Anyway, the 2.88MB version was developed by Toshiba, and didn't go on sale until after Apple was already selling "Superdrives". And about all it ever actually showed up in was later model IBM PS/2 machines.

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CD

Submitted by luckydog on September 22, 2006 - 12:29am.

no a SuperDrive CD ROM i put it in

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Jon's picture

As was stated earlier, how?

Submitted by Jon on September 22, 2006 - 2:56am.

As was stated earlier, how? The SuperDrive CD-ROM is an IDE/ATA/ATAPI interface. The SE/30 has floppy and SCSI. Something isn't adding up.

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Pictures

Submitted by coius on September 22, 2006 - 5:38am.

this would be an interesting hack. Please show us pictures. The other thing is, did you mod ANY connectors to make the drive work?

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confusion

Submitted by dankephoto on September 23, 2006 - 2:53am.

Where and how did you put in an ATAPI DVD-R/W drive in your Mac? The only way to run an ATAPI drive in an SE/30 is via an ATA/SCSI bridge. If not, I suspect you plugged it into the wrong port somehow.

Though I assume . . . errr, is this "SuperDrive" a SCSI mechanism? I'm not aware of any DVD-R/W SCSI drives, but that don't mean much. Grin

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ummmmmmmm

Submitted by luckydog on September 30, 2006 - 3:19am.

i simply put the CD drive whare the Floppy was widen the hole and i found a scssi cable in a old macintosh Quadra and i put it in my SE/30
an i will take pics after i buy batteries for my camra.

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