LCII hard drive replacement

[Chris]

I picked up an LCII awhile back, not sure if I posted about it here or not. Anyway, I had System 7 all installed up and boom...the hard drive dies. Yikes. I was able to find another SCSI drive on eBay for uh...too much...I've yet to reinstall the system. I was using an old iBook G3 with MacOS 9 to restore the System 7 disk images onto floppies on at a time. I had so many bad floppies I ended up having to use the same darn one. That's right, image, install, eject, re-image, eject, install, repeat. That took 3 hours last time. The question is, is there a better way? I suppose ideally a System 7 installation CD, but there are two problems there. I don't have a SCSI CD-ROM anymore, nor do I have a System 7 install CD. Does anyone have a good source for either besides eBay? If not, back to eBay it is!

[Chris]

No one? 

[John]

Hmm, that's a tough one. You might find something like the Floppy Emu http://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/ to be helpful. This way you can load the floppy images directly on to the card, hook it up via the floppy port on the LCII and away you go!

[Chris]

I recall the episode where that was covered. It seems like an awesome product. I have a fantastic condition Mac Iici (recapped!) on the way and I definitely want to have a floppy emu for that. 

I won't ramble on about the Iici, but it's my favorite, I grew up with that model! I'll post pics when I get it. 

[Tim HD]

Have had much success with a SCSI to SD card adapter in my SE/30. You initialise it while connected via micro UBS to a modern Mac and it should just be seen as a HDD by the system once you put it inside (Apols, I know I am talking Mac OS not Apple II OS). Fast, quiet, lighter machine. I'd prefer it over any 30yr old hdd!