Using Modern Hard Drives on Old Macs?

[uniserver]

I think people watch 68kmla, or come across it with google searches.

As we know hard drives and vintage macs are a big issue.

Others are coming across this info we have posted here and hopping to ebay and raising the prices it seems.

 

[habibrobert]

Would you have to worry about terminating the drive if you use an SCSI to IDE adapter?

 

[onlyonemac]

Why is this in the Peforma section? Should it not be in either the Development or the Peripherals sections?

 

[Nathan]

I received my winning auction, these ones are same drives, just 36gb, 10k, still work the same.just 6 drives in this lot... I am waiting for this 50 or 100 lot, I'm working on getting his price down to $3 a drive. so far he is stuck @ $6.

I told him he is gonna be sitting on them. And so far he has been sitting on them. only time will tell.

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That guy selling the huge lots of harddrives should try selling them in groups of 5/10, he'd get more interest and maybe actually make a sale.

 

[uniserver]

I found a guy that would sell me 13 more, if someone wants one ready-to-go /w adaptor let me know.

 

[uniserver]

Well here they are, now available. More 10K rpm 2.5" little SCSI buggers. Ready to be installed in worthy vintage mac's

 

[CC_333]

What storage space do they have?

c

 

[uniserver]

36gb

 

[techknight]

I got my 2 from uniserver and they seem to work ok. I had to fabricate a terminator, as the adapter PCB that he sends contains NO termination. The terminator I stuck on there was a passive one from a quadra 950 i stripped down years ago. (wish i didnt, worked fine, didnt need it).

 

[uniserver]

yeah re this post in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20907&start=50#p203365

These DB25 external passive terminators work good for me. @ $5 a piece is not bad.

lol poor q950 lol

 

[uniserver]

stay tuned!

I now own a 512k /w Dove Mac Snap installed.

Re this comment i made:

ultimate would be using this hd in a 512ke /w a dove mac snap.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20907&start=100#p204817

** internally ** *moves eyebrows up and down* :-D

 

[mcdermd]

stay tuned!
I now own a 512k /w Dove Mac Snap installed.

Re this comment i made:

ultimate would be using this hd in a 512ke /w a dove mac snap.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20907&start=100#p204817

** internally ** *moves eyebrows up and down* :-D

I approve of the above post. Ultimate upgrade.

 

[techknight]

Wasnt a schematic for a SCSI card released at one point? So technically anyone without SCSI could build one, and with plus ROMs the SCSI would be native.

 

[oldmacs]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SCSI-80-68-50-Pin-to-IDE-Hard-Disk-Driver-HDD-Adapter-Card-for-PC-Computer-/111138819117?pt=UK_Computing_Drive_Cables_Adapters&hash=item19e063cc2d&_uhb=1

Would that work for converting a SCSI HD in a 68K Mac to an Ide one?

 

[genie_mac]

Very strange. Looks to be a purely passive device, more like an adapter. I have absolutely no idea how this is supposed to convert IDE to SCSI without any logic circuitry. I reckon this may be simply an adapter for SCSI devices using different connectors types.

I would approach with extreme caution!

 

[mcdermd]

That's not IDE. That's just a standard SCSI 50-pin to SCA adapter.

 

[oldmacs]

Dammm

Oh well. My vintage Mac dreams will truly end when the last of my SCSI hard drives die then xx(

 

[uniserver]

With the introduction of USPS first class Intl. People from the USA can send things all over the world now for pretty cheap. As long as its under 3.9 lbs.

I could very easily send you these nice 2.5" drives for your vintage macs.

Then you would be all set, just takes a little $$.

 

[CC_333]

Or either ££ or €€, depending on where you are

c

 

[uniserver]

ok tonight is the night.

I'm going to install one of these 10K drives in the 512k /w dove mac snap /w custom internal 50pin header-- mcdermd was kind enough to carefully install.

I am going to acquire power for the drive from a slim power brick soldered right to the power switch, so it goes on and off with the computer.

I'm pretty confident its going to work.

Mac OS 7.1 - here goes nothing…

PS: This same 512k, also has a custom 2meg memory upgrade as well, so 2.5mb total.