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Clipper HD
- Thread starter bibilit
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Bad news on the item I got from the auction listed above. Despite the 2.5" drive I have being known good, and only pulling 5v 0.5A, the included 5V 2A power supply will not power it. I'm not sure if it's the enclosure or the power supply. I'm rather disappointed. I did notice a solder bridge between two of the pins in the enclosure, but I'm not sure if that's intended or that is where the problem is coming from. I'll let you know how the seller handles it. 
Crap!
Should have known. The power supplies are obviously not original to the device, they are way too modern. They obviously just paired the enclosures with cheap Chinese power supplies they got from somewhere.
Do you have any other power supplies you can test it with that output at least 1.5 A? I checked all of mine and I don't.
I also noticed on mine that several of the pins are tied together by solder bridges. I figured they are that way for a reason, to tie all the pins at once to ground, but I thought you would know better. There is really nothing to the PCB, so I just don't see how it can be bad. I figure it has to be the cheap ass power supply they included.
Should have known. The power supplies are obviously not original to the device, they are way too modern. They obviously just paired the enclosures with cheap Chinese power supplies they got from somewhere.
Do you have any other power supplies you can test it with that output at least 1.5 A? I checked all of mine and I don't.
I also noticed on mine that several of the pins are tied together by solder bridges. I figured they are that way for a reason, to tie all the pins at once to ground, but I thought you would know better. There is really nothing to the PCB, so I just don't see how it can be bad. I figure it has to be the cheap ass power supply they included.
sure you can,
we just need to make a proper diagram that tells you EXACTLY what wires to ground... and what wires you solder to the SCSI chip.
then you can just have one internally.
well, also need to type out and say what exact parts you need to change in your PLUS PSU in order to have enough power for a HD.
once we have that exact info documented anyone who has a plus can install a hard drive internally.
But right now all we have is some random pictures of people that have already modified it... or bought it already modified,
nobody has stepped up and said, this is what you exactly have to do, step by step in detail.
I am close to doing this my self... but i would rather someone who has already successfully done this save me a boat load of time and frustration.
this clipper thing is honkey and kind of stupid anyways.
i mean you still need to get power for the hd... that off the bat makes it not worth it for me.
Trust me... i have a 100m zip inside of my 512ke /with scsi mac snap, and that booting up on its own w/o a floppy, really is delightful. I would assume i'd feel the same delight with a plus /with 4mb ram. and a 500mb hd... or 73gb 2.5" 10k rpm scsi drive!!!!!!
i already know they work externally, thanks to marky! so i know it will work internally! as long as i can supply it with the right amount of power.
we just need to make a proper diagram that tells you EXACTLY what wires to ground... and what wires you solder to the SCSI chip.
then you can just have one internally.
well, also need to type out and say what exact parts you need to change in your PLUS PSU in order to have enough power for a HD.
once we have that exact info documented anyone who has a plus can install a hard drive internally.
But right now all we have is some random pictures of people that have already modified it... or bought it already modified,
nobody has stepped up and said, this is what you exactly have to do, step by step in detail.
I am close to doing this my self... but i would rather someone who has already successfully done this save me a boat load of time and frustration.
this clipper thing is honkey and kind of stupid anyways.
i mean you still need to get power for the hd... that off the bat makes it not worth it for me.
Trust me... i have a 100m zip inside of my 512ke /with scsi mac snap, and that booting up on its own w/o a floppy, really is delightful. I would assume i'd feel the same delight with a plus /with 4mb ram. and a 500mb hd... or 73gb 2.5" 10k rpm scsi drive!!!!!!
i already know they work externally, thanks to marky! so i know it will work internally! as long as i can supply it with the right amount of power.
Internally, it ought to be easy enough to just run AC off the power switch contacts on the A/B to an auxiliary PSU inside the Plus rather than putting more load on the A/B. The main problem I see would be strain on the cooling budget. The lump-on-a-rope wouldn't add much, but the HDD would definitely raise temps inside the box, especially those little server drives.
Externally, you could run the power line from the lump out the back to the Clipper. It would be ugly, but less so than having the wire coming from an outlet. Then again, you'd need a power cord and a minimal cable monster for the usual ZFP HDD approach. Dunno, it's a matter of taste, but at least the Clipper keeps the Plus in the near vicinity of the wall in comparison to a SCSI cable.
Externally, you could run the power line from the lump out the back to the Clipper. It would be ugly, but less so than having the wire coming from an outlet. Then again, you'd need a power cord and a minimal cable monster for the usual ZFP HDD approach. Dunno, it's a matter of taste, but at least the Clipper keeps the Plus in the near vicinity of the wall in comparison to a SCSI cable.
Nah, Zip AND HDD in a Bacster clone, have the Zip pop out the right side. }
I've pondered a purchase of that drive in the past. But I've remained happen with my zero footprint Apple HD20SC case that sits beneath, which has a fast 4.5GB drive mechanism in it.
What would really light my fire would be a PDS card SSD. That would eliminate the SE/30's SCSI bottleneck and be the fastest possible drive solution, loads faster than any flash drive or SSD attached to the SCSI bus.
What would really light my fire would be a PDS card SSD. That would eliminate the SE/30's SCSI bottleneck and be the fastest possible drive solution, loads faster than any flash drive or SSD attached to the SCSI bus.
The zip100 SCSI drives are kinda hard to find, and expensive if they are found. I find jaz roughly the same price, and sometimes abit cheaper alot of the time, its larger in size, and its mostly if not all SCSI. Of course theres the reliability factor, but I owned an external with 3 disks for several years and back when they were in active use I really didn't have any issues with it. maybe 1 bad sector crept up.
