Macintosh Plus External Drive Recognition Issue

[HunterCupp]

If it is a head crash, you can pretty much kiss the drive goodbye - unless you want to keep it in case you get the same model drive with a bad logic board.

Fixing it would require replacement head(s) and platter(s) (most likely impossible to get), and specialized equipment for removing/swapping the heads and platters, equally impossible to acquire.

You might still get something for it on ebay as a crashed drive. I've seen a few 'non-working' early SCSI drives for sale. Somebody may be interested in it's scrap value for spare parts.

MacTech68

I suppose I'll just stick to replacing it then. How much would you recommend to sell the drive alone for?

Thanks,
-Hunter

 

[MacTech68]

...How much would you recommend to sell the drive alone for?

Good question. Some of these early drives seem to be on sale for US$100-$170.

My guess would be $30-50, as-is faulty.

 

[Larry MacPhee]

smithrh

I'm assuming you mean the thing on the back with the roll of numbers that goes from 0-9. I'll try changing it around and see if that does anything. It's currently on 9.

Thanks,
- Hunter

It's been a long time, but in addition to SCSI termination issues, the range of allowed SCSI IDs is something like 1-7, but some of the numbers need to be avoided because they are reserved for the system...The safest ones to try are 2, 4, or 5. As I recall, 3 is usually reserved for the CD-ROM drive, and 7 is the system. 0 is the internal boot drive (I think).
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Hello, all.

Today, I picked up a Macintosh Plus with an external DirectDrive 20 by Jasmine drive. The Mac had supposedly not been touched for at least 15 years and still had everything plugged in the right places.

I powered the drive on and waited about 10 seconds, then powered the Mac on. I was greeted by the 'Happy Mac' icon, and assumed there was an OS installed. About 15 seconds later, the screen flickered somewhat and the 'No Disk' icon was shown instead.

Not sure why this is happening, but hopefully someone else can help me out here. I put in a system disk and the drive doesn't appear to show anywhere. Also not sure why this would occur, as I'm pretty sure that the drive was formatted at some point in the past to work with the Mac. (I've never used an external HDD on an older Macintosh before, so this is new to me.)

I've attached photos in case they may help.

Thanks,
-Hunter

Those old Jasmine drives were sweet! They cost about $500 new, and stored a whopping 20 megabytes of data.

 

[Mafomo]

The Jasmine formatter allows setting partitions to 'automount' or 'manual mount'.

The Jasmine formatter also allows for setting a partition as a 'startup partition'.

Hi MacTech. Can you please point me to a source where I can find and download the Jasmine formatter you mentioned? I have a similar issue with a couple of hard drives. Thanks in advance.

 

[MacTech68]

Hi MacTech. Can you please point me to a source where I can find and download the Jasmine formatter you mentioned? I have a similar issue with a couple of hard drives. Thanks in advance.

I can't locate the original source but I've got Jasmin DriveWare 2.1.1 on my SheepShaver drive.

Here is a zipped up copy of a .hqx (forum doesn't allow .hqx)

 

[Mafomo]

I can't locate the original source but I've got Jasmin DriveWare 2.1.1 on my SheepShaver drive.

Here is a zipped up copy of a .hqx (forum doesn't allow .hqx)

Thanks a million!