Question about mac classic

[cjtmacclassic]

hello world-

as i am well aware of the art of putting sd memory cards in a macintosh SE, i was wondering if the same could be done to a macintosh classic. why?

well, i am working on removing caps from my macintosh classic logic board (does anyone have replacements availible?) and decile the case was i decded while

the case is open, why not?

-CT

 

[Bunsen]

Well they both have internal SCSI, so the process is the same. First, find your SCSI to IDE adapter ...

BTW

 

[PowerPup]

I decided to take a look for SD to IDE adapters on Ebay. And there's a lot of them! :O

Just looking at all the stuff one would need makes me dizzy.

First a SCSI to IDE adapter.

But some of those SCSI to IDE adapters only a female IDE port on them, same as the IDE to SD/CF adapter.

But there is another IDE to SCSI adapter that has a male IDE port, but this one has a 68-pin SCSI port on it. So this one would need a 68 to 50 pin SCSI adapter.

And once you had all that done, then you can get the SD to IDE adapter.

Unless you got one of the SD to 2.5" IDE adapters, Which would require a 3.5" to 2.5" IDE adapter.

...... 8-o

And that's not even including the SD card!

Oh and then you would need some y-power cables and an IDE to floppy power cable.

Still, if I had the extra cash to do something like that, I definitely would.

 

[rimmer]

I can attest to the first adaptor listed in your post above. It's the same I've used with great success for my "SSD in an SE/30"-project!

Please note; it's meant for full size HDD's, so there's a cut-out in the PCB for the power-cable going to the HDD. I find this clever and cool.

Cheers,

/Anders

 

[bbraun]

I'm currently using CF in most of my older macs:

http://synack.net/~bbraun/idecf.html

The SCSI based systems are using the R-IDSC-E adapter linked to earlier, with my experiences documented here:

http://synack.net/~bbraun/ridsce.html

I've gone the SCSI-IDE-CF adapter route instead of the SD card route as CF is basically a straight through connection to IDE, so only one level of translation is occurring (SCSI-IDE). There are enough variables in this setup without adding IDE-SD translation to the mix IMO.

 

[Bunsen]

only a female IDE port on them, same as the IDE to SD/CF adapter.

So you make up a short IDE cable.

68-pin SCSI port on it.

Perfect for use with a fast Nubus SCSI card.
bbraun: Thanks for posting those test results. Would you be willing to add your Mac tests to our wiki page, Flash Drive Test Results, with a link back to your pages?