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SE/30 infinite boot loop or rattling floppy drive(?)
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-03-22 08:15:01 From the official website at https://bluescsi.com/v2: + Which credit do you feel is missing? I’ve been told that they put their own copyright headers on essentially unmodified firmware code from ZuluSCSI. Along with that, the section you mentioned crediting ZuluSCSI is the only place where it’s present, it’s absent from their GitHub as far as I’ve been able to tell, and also, what does “ZuluSCSI’s SCSI2SD” even mean. Strange wording. If anything it implies that they’re crediting the SCSI2SD, not Zulu which is different. In any event, I really don’t want to derail this thread into yet another Blue Vs. Zulu SCSI thread. Edit: Did find this: https://github.com/BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2/commit/84d204679adc17123eac568e7c6f8ab399d9d783 Whole situation is a mess to figure out. @aperezbios can probably clarify.
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-03-23 07:55:24 Updated my batteries page with the images you provided: https://macdat.net/important_issues/remove_your_batteries.html
Posted by: Berenod on 2023-03-23 08:26:40 I'm pretty sure I just liberated an SE/30 of one of those black, sort of no brand batteries... Just removed the very exact same one from a SE/30 Only mine is 11 months older 😉 So, slightly less extreme rare 😛
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-03-23 08:52:26 Hmm…. I wonder who made these. Has anyone seen one leak? Edit: guess I’ll have to update the page again with 1988-89 🙂
Posted by: Berenod on 2023-03-23 09:08:58 Mine sure looks good, no leaks, but totally empty (0,7V)
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-03-23 09:18:27 Hey, that’s more than 0V. Give the poor guy some credit, it’s 30 years old!
Posted by: Berenod on 2023-03-23 10:07:43 Hey, that’s more than 0V. Give the poor guy some credit, it’s 30 years old! Well, I do have several of the soldered on Varta's in SE's still bang on 3.6V! And usually they do not tend to leak... Still, the do get the immediate snip, why take the risk!
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-03-23 10:20:43 Yeah, those are pretty good. Have heard one single account of them leaking though, so you can’t trust them.
Posted by: lma114 on 2023-03-23 10:43:07 […] the three thin long black components next to the SCSI connector (see image), […] have some wiggle. […] I still have some suspicion that the thin long black things from the picture are involved, but haven’t really been able to make consistent evidence for it. Does anyone know what these black things are for? (The disk is still working 🙂)
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-03-23 10:59:39 Resistor packs - likely to do with SCSI termination.
Posted by: lma114 on 2023-03-24 07:22:40 Thanks! So not something that would prevent the HDD from spinning up?
Posted by: 3lectr1cPPC on 2023-03-24 07:47:11 I’d think not, but I’m not positive. I’m not an expert in SCSI by any means.
Posted by: lma114 on 2023-03-24 08:10:47 Thanks! That would at least explain why I wasn't able to consistently make it (not) spin up when moving them.
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