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Just ordered the following: 4 Pin Molex 5.25" Power Male to 4 pin Floppy Power 3.5" Mini-spox 17.5cm
 SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro 90 MB/s Compact Flash Card
 StarTech.com 40/44 Pin IDE to Compact Flash SSD Adapter - IDE to CF Card Reader Wish me luck, thanks again for your...

Did you leave the 4400's molex cable unplugged then? Thanks for the link btw and the info - very appreciated!, that particular item is sitting in my Amazon basket... ;)  can you tell I'm desperate!

The only adapters I'm seeing have 44-pins so would the Mac's 40-pin IDE cable still fit into the adapter's 44-pin connection, leaving 4 pins unused / reserved for power? Is an additional power adapter actually required to connect the Mac's Molex to the adapter board or can power be sent through...

This is the USB card that I mentioned above. Manufacturer is: Entrega technologies inc. Model name is: PCI-4U / 204-0013-001 Rev C. Below that is my newly-acquired 6500, shame the Apple Design II speakers don't work, just hiss away when connected!

Lucky you! I don't suppose you could send me a link to the exact parts you used please...it would help me out a lot. Thanks :)

Yep, zip drive installed and working. Ha yea the OrangePC card was the first to go the noise it made with it in scared my soul. Now I'm keeping eyes peeled for a Radeon 7000...and some hen's teeth.

I only got the 6500 a week or so ago, it was running 8.6 with a 4-port USB, and OrangePC PC compatibility card taking up both PCI slots. Too bad I put on a clean installation of the OS, and in light of what you wrote I'm getting a sense of foreboding... I'll post what info I can about the USB...

Thank you! I'd never have guessed these Macs would be so difficult to try and get an SSD into and running. Would you be a gent and give the details of the parts you have so I can order the same please? I'm not sure how 'old' the Intel mSATAs would need to be, do you mean the SSD 310 series? Wiki...

Thanks for your advice and comments, yea I don't have any other boards for testing sadly. I'm not familiar with Alchemy as I've only just gotten back into these legacy Macs after 20 years so it's a steep learning curve for me. The two adapters I tried are here: StarTech.com IDE to SATA Hard...

I'm having no joy getting an SSD hooked up to this machine. Tried two different PATA-to-SATA converters (every jumper setting imaginable, or using no jumpers at all etc.) and no luck. SSDs refuse to show up in Disk Utility (on 8.5 or 9.1 startup CD). I'd like to try a PATA SSD before I give up...

I'll give this a go with my Power Mac 6500 I think - thanks for mentioning it here (I've tried regular SSD-IDE adaptors but nothing is being recognized by Disk Utility).

So it's a regular PATA SSD (or HD) or CF Card with the adaptor Floofies mentioned? Ok, thanks.

I've been struggling to get an SSD to be recognized by my Power Mac 6500 - I tried two different 'PATA/IDE-to-SATA' adaptors (Startech and VGEBY brand) both which claim to work with the IDE interface, but the drives won’t show up in Disk Utility. I've tried the Disk Utilty from the startup disk...

In reply to my own post (first sign of madness..?), I did a bit more investigating and it turns out both the CPU and PSU fans only connect via 2 pins (- and +) therefore I opted to buy the Noctua non-PWM versions ('NF-A4x10 FLX' for the CPU [40mm x 10mm] and 'NF-A9 FLX' for the PSU [92mm x...

I just bought a beautiful Performa 6500/275 near-mint condition unmarked (lucky find). It may not be necessary but I thought it might be useful to swap out the CPU and PSU fans with Noctuas (I'm a huge fan, pun intended). I'm not as tech-savvy as most here, to my shame, so can I ask anyone if...