MacroSystem Casablanca Classic

[TribbleSmasher]

Yes you can use a normal SCSI hd, just pull the caddy out and replace it.
To install software you will either need the original floppy disks, a way to transfer copies of those with a KryoFlux to new disks or a way to mount your hd to a computer with WinUAE and copy an existing image onto it.

[TribbleSmasher]

You will need to initialise your new hd inside the Casablanca, as it partitions it to its needs, also, it has a CDB not a RDB, and Uae cannot write this block type, but it will accept a drive with it.
So first get the disk images from here
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JKUXhS1VwfpIN1hssyu769HtjHrpnukp
then write the normal install disk images with the Kryoflux onto diskettes. Remember, once you have used those disks in the Casablanca they will gain a stamp with your serialnumber written onto it and therefore become useless on another machine.
The disks have a special format due to copyprotection.

Once at least the partitioning is done you can hookup the drive in the PC and addit to WinUAE and copy the missing software from here
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1evKLQJ2rG5a21E8pBmUOoNkSa1fPVmWt
(scroll down to "Macrosystem Casablanca....")
to it.

Always make sure you have backup images from your Casablanca drive, otherwise it is too much trouble to reinstall again.

[TribbleSmasher]

You should use any Installdisk v2.7 or v3 or so, depending what language you find on that disks.
Once you have a working system the rest is really try and see, as all those disks and the backup files are 'copies'.
There is however a little step involved in understanding and therefore use of the system as it is not an Amiga in the most common sense.
If you have the system installed with the main software it is pretty much self explanatory, i mean for a NLVE system from the 90s.

There is probably a manual somewhere outthere, i don't have the time to scan or locate it just for now.
If your machine is working basically, feel free to experiment with it and make backups along the way.
And, just to save yourself some trouble: No, you cannot turn it into an Amiga for all we know up today just yet.

You can read on the technical details here:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=75161