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I finally got around to trying this out, but haven't had much success so far. I borrowed an Adaptec 29160N card from a friend, which has a 50-pin connector, and hooked up the Mac drive to it. The card works fine on its own but once I connect the drive, the whole system becomes extremely...
Thanks for the help. I don't have the Mac or its drive with me right now, but I'll double check the connector when I get the drive. I see several Adaptec 50-pin SCSI cards on ebay for around $10, which are apparently supported on XP.
I use HFVExplorer to manage my HFS volumes for the emulators...
I just registered here. I have a Performa 600CD that had gone strong for 17 years, but died a year ago with the same issue described here while I was loading up some game. It probably isn't worth trying to fix the machine unless it's something simple, as I can run most of the old programs in...