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Johnklos & co, I got one of these and put it into an external scsi case. Like the ACARD SSD based solution the only HD Formatting that seemed to work was FWB Hard Disk Toolkit. This seems to be a common theme... also as this is no longer available (FWB) appear to have gone out of...

Hi Johnkls and Duxbridge & Co, many thanks for additional suggestions and tips, I had given up on this one as a lost cause. Based on feedback I "down graded" the ARS--2000SUP firmware. First I tried the earliest firmware release available on the ACARD web site (Version: 1.06P) This...

Duxbride, olePigeon, Bunsen & others, well it seems that I am the ginea pig on this one... I have not also tried to use the ACARD SATA box solution with my "Mystic Colour Classic" (this has Performa 575 system board installed), using an external SCSI adaptor. I had not previously tried...

M68KLAers, I have had to contact ACARD, as it appears that there a compatibility issue with the ARS-2000SUP and Mac SE/30 SCSI controller... ACARD requested me to reflash the device to lastest firmware, which I did via PC with Adaptec card and I am still having problems with Mac. I get same...

Hi Johnklos, I put the SSD into a USB/SATA case and then partitioned it using Linux Gpartd with hfsutils to create 2 x 2G HFS Partitions on drive. I then created a 1GB HFS drive image via M68K DiskCopy using Basilisk II (emulator) and copied System 7.5.3 into this. In creating the HFS image...

Hi Johnklas, thanks for the offer, I do have another mac, but putting the 2 1/2 inch drive would not be easy... I created a boot floppy with "minisubstitute" finder and run Lido from the floppy. Lido came up with an error indicating that it could not get the disk size and then reported a...

Hi johnklas & Bunsen, thanks for info. I did some further reading and as per your comments the Mac will not recognise all scsi drives ... I have a bit a of chicken and egg problem... I do not have an external disk enclosure and so to format the drive I need to disconnect the internal...

Hi M68KLAers, I got myself one of the ACARD SCSI-to-SATA boxes and installed a 2.5" SDD into it, but now it seems that my machine does not recognise it. On both my SE/30 and Mystic Colour Classic the SCSI drives has the old "terminator" resisters sets install. All new SCSI devices use jumpers...

68kers, thanks very much for thoughts and references. I think I will try out SCSI to IDE or SATA option. Given that SCSI is parallel, it would seem that IDE is a better option, as it would be easier to convert. The various benchmark results seem inconclusive, so once I get my Mac up and...

Hi 68Kers, is anyone aware of where you can source 3.5" 50 PIN SCSI SSD drives as an alternative to using old (and unreliable) SCSI drives? I have found a number of sites which have details on drives but there are no costs and web searching does not appear to bring up any retail outlets. Here...