CF Card Hard Drive

[jwmcfarlin]

One of my IIcis has no hard drive. Rather than look for a 50-pin SCSI drive, I was considering trying the CF Card route. I would eventually like to go that way for all my systems if it works nicely. Has anyone done this and how did they go about it?

I am considering one of the Addonics offerings.

Best,

John

 

[Bunsen]

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http://68kmla.org/wiki/SCSI_harddisk_replacement_options

http://68kmla.org/wiki/Flash_Drive_Test_Results

 

[johnklos]

You can read all about it in this thread:

http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12050

It's going on three pages, so to summarize a good way to go is to get an Acard SCSI-IDE and an Addonics CF-IDE if you want something which is known to work, speedy, and consistent.

 

[beachycove]

It would be much, much easier to get a 50-pin drive, or even to use a 68pin scsi with adapter. There are still lots of them in circulation.

But there are situations in which I can understand that a solid state drive would be attractive, such as an old-school webserver running 24/7. Even there, though, the option of running the machine from a RAM drive using software like Maxima ought to be considered, along with a utility to spin down the HD. The silence would still be golden, and if you had plenty of RAM lying about and needing a use, it would be also be cheaper gold than the CF option.

 

[jwmcfarlin]

That's good stuff. I had been searching for the wrong thing.

I think now that I see the cost of the adapter, that you're right. That Acard SCSI-IDE adapter is something else, price wise.

On the CF Card Hard Drive front, however, I'll try the Addonics CF card adapter with a PowerBook that I think is developing the click of death first and see how that goes.

However, I saw this and was intrigued:

http://www.reactivedata.com/Products/SCSI_Bridge_Emulators_to_CF/index.php

Has anyone taken a look at one of these?

Best,

John

 

[johnklos]

Those look like cool products, but I think that they'd be pretty expensive. That's not to say that Acard SCSI to IDE adapters are cheap, but these look much fancier.

If you get a 50 pin to 68 pin adapter and a short cable with a 68 pin terminator, you can get an AEC 7726H or 7726Q for less than $50. I bought a bunch for about that price and would even sell a few for $40 USD, if anyone is interested. I have a Quadra 700 set up with an IDE drive and a 7726H and it fits nicely.

Another option is to get an Acard 50 pin SCSI to SATA 2.5" adapter and put a 2.5" SATA SSD drive in it. SATA SSD drives are getting pretty cheap, but the Acard SCSI to SATA is pretty expensive. On the other hand, it'll fit anywhere that any 50 pin SCSI drive will fit, including the Quadra 605 type cases.

 

[Osgeld]

if your just looking for a hard drive I still have my 68 pin scsi drives, 2 * 9 gig and a 2 gig up for grabs

solid state is a nice choice, but interfacing to scsi without decent access to hardware scsi controllers is quite a big thing to tackle, so "soft" systems like ide <> scsi took some good work to make function, and "they" are usually proud of it

 

[jwmcfarlin]

I have my eye on a standard 50-pin SCSI drive right now on eBay. I think I'll go that route first and when I get the Addonics CF card adapter I'll just see whether I can make it work in one of my PB180s. I sometimes make the mistake of getting too enthusiastic.

Best,

John

 

[redrouteone]

A few years back I picked up a couple of the ACARD SCSI-IDE bridges for bout $20 each. At a local electronic shop I found an IDE-SD card bridge.

Using that combination I put a 2GB card in my IIsi. One of the nice things is that it makes the system near silent.

I wish I had more spare time on my hands. Microcontrollers are getting so powerful these days, it would be easy to build a custom hard drive emulator.

What I would really like is a SCSI-iSCSI bridge. I saw some a few years back that bridg that allowed you connect a SCSI target to an iSCSI SAN. I want the other way. Connect a SCSI HBA to an iSCSI SAN.

This would be a great application for Marvell's GuruPlug....