Re: Making a Mac SE an external hard drive to a IIgs.

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Jon <iigs@hempseed.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am interested in using my Mac SE as an external hard drive to my IIGS.  I
> partitioned the hard drive into one ProDos partition and one Mac partition.
> What I did was made the SCSI ID of the SE's hard drive #4.  Then, I hooked
> an SCSI cable to the SCSI card (an Apple card) on my GS and hooked the other
> end to the SE's SCSI port.  [SE was on but shut down.]

What SCSI card do you have in the IIgs?

If it is not a RamFast, what SCSI ID is it set to?  It must be something
other than 7 for this to even have a chance of working.  (Every desktop
Mac has a SCSI ID of 7 for the computer itself and is unchangeable.)

> The weird thing is when I used the SE as an external drive to my
> powerbook, it worked.

I haven't had a close look at the options presented by a PowerBook, but
I don't recall seeing a way to change the SCSI ID of the computer.  I'm
surprised this worked.

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