Apple 4GB external SCSI work with Macintosh Plus?

[RS232]

Hi all,

Scored an Apple M2115 external SCSI 4GB HD on eBay like this one... http://myoldmac.net/picts_static/Mac/AppleExternalHardDrive_.jpg

I've been looking for one of these for ages! :beige:

Would this work on Macintosh Plus with the HD SC setup program?

Many thanks!

 

[techknight]

You have to supply termination power. But yes, I have one of those drives. I havent tried it on the plus though. i think you can set them up for termpower, but I cannot remember.

 

[roughana]

From my inspection of the internals, there is nothing connecting the power to the SCSI bus, so any termination power would need to be supplied by the drive mechanism itself. BlueSCSI v1.1a does not provide termination power.

 

[volvo242gt]

You'd definitely need to partition the drive into smaller volumes, since neither System 6 or System 7 on a Plus will do HFS+. I would be tempted to pop the 4GB drive into the CC, maybe do a Mystic upgrade on that computer, and install the Color Classic's drive into the M2115 case. That is, unless you plan to use the 4GB drive kinda like a sneakernet version of the old download.info.apple.com ftp server. Another possibility would be to create four 1GB partitions. One for each of your vintage Macs.