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| 128MB Magneto-Optical Rewritable | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-09-25 09:36:28 Is dip switch 7 on the second block set to ON? That'll turn it into "Macintosh Mode." | |
| Posted by: Cloaked Alien on 2014-09-25 10:09:55 http://www.fujitsu-europe.com/archive/archive/00000094.htm As far as I can tell it's already in Mac mode, that's weird =)   | |
| Posted by: trag on 2014-09-25 15:27:15 Okay, here's a possibility. Disks wiht different sector sizes depending on whether they are Mac or PC and the Mac mode switch controls the expected sector size. If you have a disk with a PC sector size and your drive is set to Mac mode, then it would likely reject the disk. This is farfetched, but I have these vague memories of having a batch of MO disks with the wrong sector size back in the 90s -- only that was a Unix vs. PC situation, I think. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-09-25 17:21:37 Quite the repair job on that drive. Afraid I'm outta ideas. | |
| Posted by: Cloaked Alien on 2014-09-26 00:52:40 Well, I dunno. I'll experiment a bit and see what I can come up with =) Don't think it's a repair job to be honest, seems like a factory fix. At any rate. The drive came with 3 disks. They were in PC-format. I've extracted all the contents by connecting it to a PC machine. Despite the drive seemingly being in "mac mode". Ah well, if nothing else I seem to be able to use it with a PC. I'll keep you updated with any progress I make. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-09-26 09:59:05 You could try formatting the discs on your PC as HFS. | |
| Posted by: Cloaked Alien on 2014-09-26 23:54:35 As mentioned earlier the only time it doesn't spit out the disk is when I've got my partition software open. The program is/was HDT Primer Personal Edition, I'm currently using it to "low-level format" one of the MO-disks. We'll see how it works after that. Haven't flipped any DIP switches or the likes yet and I've got no MO drivers installed in the system.  | |
| Posted by: Cloaked Alien on 2014-09-27 00:11:29 Success! \o/ However the disk shows up like a regular hard drive rather than having a custom icon, but perhaps that's not a bother to begin? .. gonna try to install that MDF 2.3.8 driver kit again. Eureka! After HDT has had it's way with it I can re-init it using the MO Disk Formatter. It now has a proper icon as well =)  | |
| Posted by: CelGen on 2014-09-27 08:43:05 You will come to appreciate how much faster and more reliable MO is compared to ZIP disks. | |
| Posted by: Cloaked Alien on 2014-09-27 09:02:18 Well, that might be. But I wouldn't rely on it since it seems like buying a new MO drive would have me paying out my *rse. Zip-drives are easier to come by =) But yeah, of course I'll put it to use! .. now I just have to figure out how to make my CD-drives work with this machine and then I'm only one Ethernet adapter away from making my old SE/30 take over as the new primary machine 😉 | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-09-28 18:51:03 A "new to me" MO drive is only $30 from the link I posted earlier. Incidentally, I just got my second one in. Looks like a clean pull from a server environment. I don't think they've ever been used. | |
| Posted by: Cloaked Alien on 2014-09-28 23:45:36 I must be getting blind, I can't find that link. But at that price it's certainly worth getting a second one to connect internally in my retro pc =) It's the machine I use to transfer files to my SE/30. I've got an internal ZIP in the PC and MacDrive Pro and I've got a SCSI ZIP on my Mac. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-09-29 08:44:49 Here's the link, but I didn't realize until just now that you're in Sweden. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=141415922298 They charge nearly $50 for shipping. :-/ | |
| Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2014-10-04 09:21:27 Hi CA, I have some SCSI 128MB, 230MB and 640MB drives as well as MO disks for them. I'll sell you a drive and some MO-discs, if you like. I can boot from them but they are finicky, for example, the MO-discs often need to be mounted if they are not the boot disk. I'm in Switzerland, though, and the postage will also probably be hefty. I haven't yet found an extension that works better than no extension. Kind regards aa | |
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