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Using Modern Hard Drives on Old Macs?
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-07-07 18:28:52 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.
Posted by: habibrobert on 2013-07-08 17:31:19 Would you have to worry about terminating the drive if you use an SCSI to IDE adapter?
Posted by: onlyonemac on 2013-07-15 10:23:37 Why is this in the Peforma section? Should it not be in either the Development or the Peripherals sections?
Posted by: Nathan on 2013-07-18 20:40:31 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. [attachment=0]IMG_2084_thumb.jpg[/attachment] 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.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-07-18 21:24:57 I found a guy that would sell me 13 more, if someone wants one ready-to-go /w adaptor let me know.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-07-24 21:16:10 Well here they are, now available. More 10K rpm 2.5" little SCSI buggers. Ready to be installed in worthy vintage mac's 🙂
Posted by: CC_333 on 2013-07-24 22:12:57 What storage space do they have? c
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-07-24 22:56:00 36gb
Posted by: techknight on 2013-07-27 18:17:43 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).
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-07-27 21:47:42 yeah re this post in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20907&start=50#p203365 These DB25 external passive terminators work good for me. @ $5 a piece is not bad. lol poor q950 lol
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-07-27 22:01:00 stay tuned! I now own a 512k /w Dove Mac Snap installed. Re this comment i made: ultimate would be using this hd in a 512ke /w a dove mac snap. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20907&start=100#p204817 internally moves eyebrows up and down :-D
Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-07-28 00:48:25 stay tuned! I now own a 512k /w Dove Mac Snap installed. Re this comment i made: ultimate would be using this hd in a 512ke /w a dove mac snap. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20907&start=100#p204817 internally moves eyebrows up and down :-D I approve of the above post. Ultimate upgrade.
Posted by: techknight on 2013-07-29 20:54:53 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.
Posted by: oldmacs on 2013-08-09 04:15:51 http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SCSI-80-68-50-Pin-to-IDE-Hard-Disk-Driver-HDD-Adapter-Card-for-PC-Computer-/111138819117?pt=UK_Computing_Drive_Cables_Adapters&hash=item19e063cc2d&_uhb=1 Would that work for converting a SCSI HD in a 68K Mac to an Ide one?
Posted by: genie_mac on 2013-08-09 05:21:20 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!
Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-08-09 08:35:55 That's not IDE. That's just a standard SCSI 50-pin to SCA adapter.
Posted by: oldmacs on 2013-08-10 19:15:08 Dammm 🙁 Oh well. My vintage Mac dreams will truly end when the last of my SCSI hard drives die then xx(
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-08-10 19:56:06 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 $$.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2013-08-10 20:04:50 Or either ££ or €€, depending on where you are 🙂 c
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-08-14 13:32:05 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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