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LC I/II/III - Q605, Pizza box collection complete?
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Hey uniserver, check this out. 
I got my adapter in practically next day. Very fast shipping! Oh man, it's like it was built for this mod. Fits perfectly. I got a couple plastic screws, and put those on the back 2 screw holes. They nestle in right next two a couple ICs, doesn't even move around. The edge of the adapter rests level on top of 2 oscillators. The power runs just to the side of the fan and can snake over to the power cable, and there's plenty of room to run the ribbon cable. My only concern is covering the fan with the ribbon cable. I'm going to try and split the ribbon cable so it's individual wires, then bundle them and snake it around just like the power cable.
That's a Presto 040 installed, so it fits just between the upgrade and the VRAM. An LC ethernet card is about the same width, so it'll fit with an ethernet card or cache card installed as well.
I was going to put in my MO drive which is perfect fit with a couple spacers, but I realized I need an additional 5v. I was thinking it might not work, but then again, it's a laptop HDD and an MO drive. It might be powerful enough to run both. I'll need to get a molex Y cable and give it a try.
My only criticism of the adapter is that the ribbon cable doesn't fit with the power cable plugged in. I may have to modify the power cable, use my Dremel to nip the corner near the connector. Should be fine, though.
I got my adapter in practically next day. Very fast shipping! Oh man, it's like it was built for this mod. Fits perfectly. I got a couple plastic screws, and put those on the back 2 screw holes. They nestle in right next two a couple ICs, doesn't even move around. The edge of the adapter rests level on top of 2 oscillators. The power runs just to the side of the fan and can snake over to the power cable, and there's plenty of room to run the ribbon cable. My only concern is covering the fan with the ribbon cable. I'm going to try and split the ribbon cable so it's individual wires, then bundle them and snake it around just like the power cable.That's a Presto 040 installed, so it fits just between the upgrade and the VRAM. An LC ethernet card is about the same width, so it'll fit with an ethernet card or cache card installed as well.
I was going to put in my MO drive which is perfect fit with a couple spacers, but I realized I need an additional 5v. I was thinking it might not work, but then again, it's a laptop HDD and an MO drive. It might be powerful enough to run both. I'll need to get a molex Y cable and give it a try.
My only criticism of the adapter is that the ribbon cable doesn't fit with the power cable plugged in. I may have to modify the power cable, use my Dremel to nip the corner near the connector. Should be fine, though.
So close yet so far away. I found a longer SCSI ribbon cable and I folded it a few times and made it fit well. I then put the floppy drive on the other side of the LC just to test it, and found that the floppy cable just barely fits over the power plug. A little snug, but it works.
Unfortunately my little 2.5" SCSI drive that I pulled form a non-working PowerBook is dead. HDSC Setup says the drive has problems after it makes weird noises. Shucks. Fortunately, I do have a known working PowerBook 190cs at work. I think it uses a SCSI drive. Next week I'll extract the HDD and give it another go. Dual floppy LC is on the verge of life. I'll take more pics when I get it all together.
Actually, I'll just make a new thread. I didn't mean to hijack this one. Sorry. It was just motivation for me to get mine working.
Unfortunately my little 2.5" SCSI drive that I pulled form a non-working PowerBook is dead. HDSC Setup says the drive has problems after it makes weird noises. Shucks. Fortunately, I do have a known working PowerBook 190cs at work. I think it uses a SCSI drive. Next week I'll extract the HDD and give it another go. Dual floppy LC is on the verge of life.
I'll take more pics when I get it all together.Actually, I'll just make a new thread. I didn't mean to hijack this one. Sorry. It was just motivation for me to get mine working.
If you have the SCSI Dock cable (like a normal Powerbook SCSI cable, but with a switch at the Powerbook end for docking mode) you can use the 190 as a bootable external drive without dismantling it.
One thing I have heard discussed as a possibility, but not tried myself, is to find a matching IDE drive - same exact size, same manufacturer, same everything - and swap the controller boards over. I have vague memories of that working for someone, but, of course, at your own risk/further research is encouraged/YMMV etc.
I managed to fix a working 160MB Quantum SCSI PowerBook drive by swapping boards with another identical drive many years ago. Actually worked great up until about 18 months later when it started getting bad sectors. Never tried swapping between SCSI and IDE though. I've been wondering about it for years.
You'll have to use that 190 in SCSI Disk Mode, as it has an IDE drive inside, not a SCSI HDD that you can remove and hook up to your LC.
Back in the pre-Zip Drive day, I used SCSI Disk Mode constantly for transfering all kinds of files to all kinds of places with my PB100 . . . especially font collections! }
Back in the pre-Zip Drive day, I used SCSI Disk Mode constantly for transfering all kinds of files to all kinds of places with my PB100 . . . especially font collections! }
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