PB 180 resurrection

[virusys]

Couldn't you simply buy a new Hard Disk? 80 MB can't be that expensive these days.

PB SCSI hard drives are a little tricky to find.

This is true, something I've noticed quite a bit these past days .

I know now the problems definitely the HD too: the machine now boots from the OS 7.5 install disk, except the option to "switch disk" to the HDD is always greyed out.

I'm thinking the obvious problem is the broken pin(s) on my current disk. However, I've been searching and I'm not quite sure how many pins are supposed to be intact on the SCSI connector. Does anyone know how many pins the drive should have? I know its a 40-pin drive, but I'm not sure if some are missing because they are redundant. It would be really helpful to have a diagram or something to tell me what it's supposed to look like. :-/

 

[thinkdifferent]

I'm pretty sure it's 40 pins, but I can check tomorrow on my own PowerBook 180 to make sure. I don't see any on eBay, but you could ask around in the trading forum of this site.

 

[JRL]

Let me take a pic of one for you.

 

[Bunsen]

Try pinouts.ru.

 

[thinkdifferent]

According to (http://pinouts.ru/HD/scsi25_pinout.shtml), you are correct, there are 40 pins. Very useful website Bunsen, thank you! :b&w:

 

[benjgvps]

I remember having a problem involving the hard drive not showing up on my PB 180c, too bad it had been sitting there for a good year without fixing itself

 

[virusys]

Hello once again,

Update: I managed to get a good-condition working PB 180c, and it works great! Kind of makes this thread useless, but I'm keeping the 180 around in case I want to do some Frankenstein-ery at some point in the future. Now all I need to do is get some sort of connection between my iMac and the 180c to transfer some files, and that leads me back to browsing this forum!

Thanks for all your help!

-niv