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Re: More help for Sound Designer Newbie.

2008-11-17 by jmp701

A quick update to announce success with a Mac Colour Classic and Apple
SCSI CD ROM. I got the driver for the CD from the other topic details
posted here, cheers ! 

I may now be able to 'almost'retire those 5.25 drives. :)

Thanks all for help in here. 


--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "elmbeatz" <elmbeatz@...> wrote:
>
> Hey, congratulations!
> Well, I didn't manage to get a scsi dc-rom drive running on my SE, but
> my Zip-100 drive worked at once without any special adjusting or such.
> So, everything I do is with that zip drive.
> Its cool, although it takes a long time to format a zip disk :)
> but it workes reallllly well. I made instrument-dedicated disks which
> I swap when needed.
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> 
> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "jmp701" <jmp70@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Elm, a stroke of luck tonight ! Despite my concerns over potential
> > modifications to the EII to get a connection, the Mac SE has connected
> > fine using the printer serial port. For the first time my EII has
> > stated 'under Macintosh control' ! :). 
> > 
> > I've got Sound Designer installed via floppy from the PB150 (using
> > DS/DD 3.5" disk formatted to 800K). HOWEVER, I can't get any SCSI
> > device to show up on the desktop. I've tried two CD drives, one an
> > Apple drive that worked with my PB150 plus a zip drive. None will show
> > up despite changing SCSI ID numbers and terminating the SCSI chain
> > with the PB150. 
> > 
> > Did you have to change any settings on the SE or did yours appear
> > automatically? 
> > 
> > Cheers.   
> > 
> > --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "elmbeatz" <elmbeatz@> wrote:
> > >
> > > ".... Hmmmm, maybe I can utilise my SCSI zip drive to transfer data
> > > between....."
> > > 
> > > That's exactly how I do it, and it works PERFECTLY!
> > > (I have a USB Zip drive on the PC side).
> > > 
> > > To mod an EII so that it can communicate with the Mac is what I was
> > > trying to do recently, and I had no success - I think you have
to be a
> > > brilliant tech to do it, which I'm not at all ;)
> > > 
> > > I'm just glad that I have another one which communicates great
(with a
> > > Mac SE, too, by the way..)
> > > 
> > > Greetz,
> > > Elm.
> > >
> >
>

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