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Using Modern Hard Drives on Old Macs?

I think people watch 68kmla, or come across it with google searches.

As we know hard drives and vintage macs are a big issue.

Others are coming across this info we have posted here and hopping to ebay and raising the prices it seems.

 
I received my winning auction, these ones are same drives, just 36gb, 10k, still work the same.just 6 drives in this lot... I am waiting for this 50 or 100 lot, I'm working on getting his price down to $3 a drive. so far he is stuck @ $6.

I told him he is gonna be sitting on them. And so far he has been sitting on them. only time will tell.

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That guy selling the huge lots of harddrives should try selling them in groups of 5/10, he'd get more interest and maybe actually make a sale.

 
Well here they are, now available. More 10K rpm 2.5" little SCSI buggers. Ready to be installed in worthy vintage mac's :-)

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I got my 2 from uniserver and they seem to work ok. I had to fabricate a terminator, as the adapter PCB that he sends contains NO termination. The terminator I stuck on there was a passive one from a quadra 950 i stripped down years ago. (wish i didnt, worked fine, didnt need it).

 
Wasnt a schematic for a SCSI card released at one point? So technically anyone without SCSI could build one, and with plus ROMs the SCSI would be native.

 
Very strange. Looks to be a purely passive device, more like an adapter. I have absolutely no idea how this is supposed to convert IDE to SCSI without any logic circuitry. I reckon this may be simply an adapter for SCSI devices using different connectors types.

I would approach with extreme caution!

 
With the introduction of USPS first class Intl. People from the USA can send things all over the world now for pretty cheap. As long as its under 3.9 lbs.

I could very easily send you these nice 2.5" drives for your vintage macs.

Then you would be all set, just takes a little $$.

 
ok tonight is the night.

I'm going to install one of these 10K drives in the 512k /w dove mac snap /w custom internal 50pin header-- mcdermd was kind enough to carefully install.

I am going to acquire power for the drive from a slim power brick soldered right to the power switch, so it goes on and off with the computer.

I'm pretty confident its going to work.

Mac OS 7.1 - here goes nothing… :-)

PS: This same 512k, also has a custom 2meg memory upgrade as well, so 2.5mb total.

 
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