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I wonder if you could dremel/cut the shielding off a male molex connector and use that? 

I've seen a tutorial on how to do this before, but I can't find anything on the Google now either. Did find this from Techknight though:   @techknight can you shed some further light on this?

Unfortunately the Plus doesn't provide termination power: https://support.apple.com/kb/TA44647?locale=en_US

Anybody know if it's possible to make a cable from one of the serial ports 5v pins to power the scsi2sd? http://www.applerepairmanuals.com/the_manuals_are_in_here/Ports_Pinouts.pdf

Good point, I just found this comparison of the scsi/floppy bus speeds:  So I'm guessing the SCSI2SD is 4x the speed of a Floppy Emu. I don't have a Floppy Emu to test with but I'm guessing despite the speed difference the Floppy Emu is preferable on the Plus purely for the out of the box...

Here's an update to a previous thread of mine in relation to getting a SCSI2SD booting with the Plus. The Plus is notorious for having a flaky/early version of scsi that doesn't work as expected and as far as I can tell there is no other reports of it working with the SCSI2SD.   So my previous...

Here's a photo I took for my own reference of the correct placement of the Hi/Lo bios chips. Notice the different numbers on the chips: 342-0341-C for Hi 342-0342-B for Lo Once you know the bios chips are in the right order you'll be in a better place to troubleshoot what's happening. 

I've got a spare Plus rom with the 3rd revision spare if you need? I got the last batch of the original Rominator's so I no longer need it. 

Sounds like a broken gear, very common and pretty easy to fix. Give this a read:  I got mine from eBay from a guy in Italy that sells them. If you're not fussed I believe you can remove the gear alltogether and just manually eject disks.

I use BasiliskII to mount my HFS formatted scsi2sd drive on Mojave. Should work the same with the zip drive: First I unmount the drive, then give my user account root access to the drive partition eg: sudo chown chu-oh /dev/disk2s2 then I add that drive as a volume in BasiliskII. BasiliskII...

Thanks for this, just got my MacPlus with no video working again because some of the joints needed to be reflowed. 

And for posterity's sake I'll update - got this working, just needed to reflow the solder the logicboard connector pins on the powerboard. The pirate mac startup is so satisfying. 

Just realised if I move the screen a bit it flickers on, I'm guessing this means my connector joints need to be redone?  

I managed to get my rom-inator working finally on my plus and it booted to the pirate finder logo (yay). So I put the back case on screwed it all up, booted and I've no longer got video. I recapped about a year ago after having this issue so the caps should be fine. The crt electron gun is...

Yep that did it, ta! Now I just need to try getting the rominator going again. 

That's what I was hoping for, the broken one has the v3 rom with decent scsi support so I'll give it a swap soon and report back. Thanks!

So I stupidly stuffed my previous logic board up with some dodgy soldering on cpu (was trying to install a rominator), and despite my best effort it no longer boots (just random noises and screen patterns on boot). I found a replacement for $30 aud in unknown condition, but it's giving me...

And an update for anyone who cares whilst I wait for my caps to arrive: The PB100 with the damaged screen also has a modem and a larger 40mb hard drive. From the looks of it the ram is the same, not sure how big they are though.  The fluorescent(?) bulb for the one with the non-broken screen...

I've got the combo soldering/desoldering station version of this. It makes recapping/removing components a dream.  Can't recommend enough. 

I just got a PM from Steve saying he's going to do one last batch of rominator v1s, the parts are ordered and they should be on sale in about a month.