Mac SE/30 Hard drive issue

[clandestino]

Hi, I got a hd issue with my Mac SE/30. Previously, I had totally recapped it and I replaced UE8 chip to solve a weird screen issue.
Suddenly I got the blinking floppy icon at the startup. In another thread, uniserver suggested hd breakage. My SE/30 has a 40mb quantum hd.
I tried to create boot floppies following this site:

http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2011-12-29-disk-from-images-mac.htm

but my mac only makes only strange noises and splits the discs out (dirty floppy drive??)
At the moment i can't boot the system.
I know mac se/30 uses SCSI 50pins, a rare standard hard to find (I'm in Italy). I'd like to know what's the cheapest solution to replace my hd (by an adapter or something similiar) and make my system usable again. I can't afford expensive items...

 

[max1zzz]

You can use morden SCA server hdd's with a adapter, You will need a pass through terminator if you use one of the cheap Chinese ones.

I do also sell adapters with termination built in, but i am all out of stock right now.

 

[clandestino]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SCA-80-PIN-TO-68-50-PIN-SCSI-ADAPTER-/261308828896?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&hash=item3cd7384ce0

Is this the right adapter?

 

[max1zzz]

Yes that would work but I wouldn't bother with one that fancy

Just get a 50pin to 80pin or 50pin to 68pin depending on what drive your getting. If you use a 80 pin drive you will need a external terminator (or if your handy with a soldering iron you can add the termination resistors to the adapter, there is a thread of mine on here on how to do that - but all the pictures are awol)