Hard drive repair?

[highlandcattle]

My Quadra 700 just ate its drive It was a Quantum 500 MB HD out of some other PowerMac, and it just stopped working.) Since my stack of SCSI 50pin hds is disappearing fastly. I'm looking for options ? I have a Quantum Fireball 1,2gb hard drive. But it is missing one of it pins (don't ask how this happenend ). Can they be replaced? I'm guessing I'll have to invest in some 68 or 80 pin hard drives and adapters

 

[Byrd]

The quick and dirty fix of trying to repair a missing/damaged pin in a CPU or hard disk is to use a similar gauge piece of wire (in this case, a paperclip), poke it into the end of the SCSI connector, plug it in and hope for the best

50-pin SCSI hard disks seems to be pretty common still, unlike their 2.5" counterparts. 68-pin cheaper again and more plentiful, but not all work with the standard 50-->68 pin adapters.

 

[techknight]

as long as the 68-pin drive isnt HVD, and is backward-compatible with SCSI-1, SCSI-2 alongside the SCSI-3 that most are.

 

[highlandcattle]

Well I just bought three 68pin adaptors and three 80 pin adaptors.(+/- twenty euro oncluding shipping) Now lets find me some harddrives!

Thanks for the tip tech knight! I didn't know that.

I tried to repair the fireball. But It still would'nt be recognised by the patched HD setup

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Have you got a solid, short free connection on your repair job? (no criticism intended, just following the technical support script! [] ]'> )

Try soldering the matching wire from a spare 50 pin ribbon cable or cable connector to the controller PCB and daisy chain?

If that throws the timing off, split up and splay out 2" of all the wires from a lopped off internal SCSI cable, solder the signal wires to the controller and tie all the alternating ground lines together to make one solid connection to a good grounding point on the HDD.

Start with just the matching wire with a multiple connector internal cable, split-n-splay but only strip and solder the one wire for the first attempt.

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