LC I/II/III - Q605, Pizza box collection complete?

[olePigeon]

So close yet so far away. I found a longer SCSI ribbon cable and I folded it a few times and made it fit well. I then put the floppy drive on the other side of the LC just to test it, and found that the floppy cable just barely fits over the power plug. A little snug, but it works.

Unfortunately my little 2.5" SCSI drive that I pulled form a non-working PowerBook is dead. HDSC Setup says the drive has problems after it makes weird noises. Shucks. Fortunately, I do have a known working PowerBook 190cs at work. I think it uses a SCSI drive. Next week I'll extract the HDD and give it another go. Dual floppy LC is on the verge of life. I'll take more pics when I get it all together.

Actually, I'll just make a new thread. I didn't mean to hijack this one. Sorry. It was just motivation for me to get mine working.

[Bunsen]

PowerBook 190cs at work. I think it uses a SCSI drive. Next week I'll extract the HDD and give it another go.

If you have the SCSI Dock cable (like a normal Powerbook SCSI cable, but with a switch at the Powerbook end for docking mode) you can use the 190 as a bootable external drive without dismantling it.

my little 2.5" SCSI drive that I pulled form a non-working PowerBook is dead.

One thing I have heard discussed as a possibility, but not tried myself, is to find a matching IDE drive - same exact size, same manufacturer, same everything - and swap the controller boards over. I have vague memories of that working for someone, but, of course, at your own risk/further research is encouraged/YMMV etc.

[LCGuy]

I managed to fix a working 160MB Quantum SCSI PowerBook drive by swapping boards with another identical drive many years ago. Actually worked great up until about 18 months later when it started getting bad sectors. Never tried swapping between SCSI and IDE though. I've been wondering about it for years.

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

You'll have to use that 190 in SCSI Disk Mode, as it has an IDE drive inside, not a SCSI HDD that you can remove and hook up to your LC.

Back in the pre-Zip Drive day, I used SCSI Disk Mode constantly for transfering all kinds of files to all kinds of places with my PB100 . . . especially font collections!

[uniserver]

heck yeah, looks like you have the right idea! As they say another day in paradise! Little bit of tweaking and your enjoying your custom hard drive goodness!