CelGen
Well-known member
Yes, it is actually a chore to put a 5.25" hard drive in your Lisa. There regular drive cage has no mounting holes to accept a regular 5.25" device. There's only the six that work for the Widget and are used by the Lisa Lite card if you have just a 3.5" drive originally.
I wasn't willing to shell out upwards fo $300 for a drive emulator that I wasn't 100% on if it would work in a Lisa that originally never had a Widget so I took the cheaper alternative and bought a Build-It-Yourself SCSI card. I had 3.5" SCSI drives that I could easily just bolt to the card and call it a day but if there was to be a drive in my Lisa, it had to at least sound authentic. I dug around an d found a Seagate ST-225 with a SCSI interface. Perfect.
Like I said however, you can't jsut bolt it in and call it a day. I also understand the drives don't like being mounted at angles.
I put the drive in the cage while it was mounted in the Lisa. From there I shimmed it up until it was at the right height and right position which is essential because Apple was smoking crack. There's almost no room for error. Either you put it too far back and you can't screw in the cage or you have it too far forward and you can't put the front on.
Anyways, with a lot of swearing, stacking of random junk, a level and one misaligned drill hole (oh well, I got three other screws) I got the drive in.
The drive however does not have an activity LED. Only a connector for one. That's easy enough to fix.
Edit: I would also be proud to say I own my first DSLR and yes, I have a lot to learn.
I wasn't willing to shell out upwards fo $300 for a drive emulator that I wasn't 100% on if it would work in a Lisa that originally never had a Widget so I took the cheaper alternative and bought a Build-It-Yourself SCSI card. I had 3.5" SCSI drives that I could easily just bolt to the card and call it a day but if there was to be a drive in my Lisa, it had to at least sound authentic. I dug around an d found a Seagate ST-225 with a SCSI interface. Perfect.
Like I said however, you can't jsut bolt it in and call it a day. I also understand the drives don't like being mounted at angles.
I put the drive in the cage while it was mounted in the Lisa. From there I shimmed it up until it was at the right height and right position which is essential because Apple was smoking crack. There's almost no room for error. Either you put it too far back and you can't screw in the cage or you have it too far forward and you can't put the front on.
Anyways, with a lot of swearing, stacking of random junk, a level and one misaligned drill hole (oh well, I got three other screws) I got the drive in.
The drive however does not have an activity LED. Only a connector for one. That's easy enough to fix.
Edit: I would also be proud to say I own my first DSLR and yes, I have a lot to learn.
