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

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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coius's picture

huwhahuh?

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?

Jon's picture

Isn't there something about c

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.

Eudimorphodon's picture

Re: huwhahuh?

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.

--Peace

coius's picture

Oh...

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.

Eudimorphodon's picture

Re: Oh...

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.

--Peace

CD

no a SuperDrive CD ROM i put it in

Jon's picture

As was stated earlier, how?

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.

coius's picture

Pictures

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

dankephoto's picture

confusion

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

dan k

ummmmmmmm

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.