360alaska
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So here’s a thought,
During my work on my Powerbook 100 battery, I was trying to find a suitable hard drive replacement as the Conner 20mb hard drive was clearly on last legs. I first looked to Inertial Computing who did not have any SCSI2SdD Powerbook variations in stock. Second, I looked to Codesrc who apparently does not ship to the US. Lastly, I looked to and ordered from ARTMIX who sells a clone of the SCSI2SD. I ordered it on August 6th and while it does appear they shipped it, it seems to have been lost in the mail. So I continued to limp along the 20mb hard drive which seems to do okay when it works. If you look on Ebay, people are selling 2.5” 50-pin scsi drives for 40,60,80, even 100$. This is crazy! So I think I have a solution, I was browsing Inertial Computing’s website and SCSI2SD v5.5 aka the DB25 version seem to be aplenty.
The SCSI2SD v5.5 is the smallest SCSI model yet and fits perfectly within the size limitations of the 2.5 hard drive, so I have designed an adapter. While I can claim success of the concept, unfortunately I reversed the DB25 connector on the PCB so I have a revision on order. But hey it works!
I successfully, installed and booted to 7.1, as well as did a quick benchmark:
During my work on my Powerbook 100 battery, I was trying to find a suitable hard drive replacement as the Conner 20mb hard drive was clearly on last legs. I first looked to Inertial Computing who did not have any SCSI2SdD Powerbook variations in stock. Second, I looked to Codesrc who apparently does not ship to the US. Lastly, I looked to and ordered from ARTMIX who sells a clone of the SCSI2SD. I ordered it on August 6th and while it does appear they shipped it, it seems to have been lost in the mail. So I continued to limp along the 20mb hard drive which seems to do okay when it works. If you look on Ebay, people are selling 2.5” 50-pin scsi drives for 40,60,80, even 100$. This is crazy! So I think I have a solution, I was browsing Inertial Computing’s website and SCSI2SD v5.5 aka the DB25 version seem to be aplenty.
The SCSI2SD v5.5 is the smallest SCSI model yet and fits perfectly within the size limitations of the 2.5 hard drive, so I have designed an adapter. While I can claim success of the concept, unfortunately I reversed the DB25 connector on the PCB so I have a revision on order. But hey it works!
I successfully, installed and booted to 7.1, as well as did a quick benchmark: