On Dec 21, 2003, at 10:38 pm, Joe wrote:
I just bought a 8 GB HDD for my lombard, but its too thick to fit inside my laptop, so since I have a BUNCH of compacts, I figured maybe I can stick it inside my SE/30, remove its HDD and put another floppy in it, so it has two floppies and a laptop 8GB HDD in it.
First question, what OS do I need to run for it to recognize the 8 GB HDD in one partition?
8.0 I *think*. 7.6 *might* but i can't remember. Either is not going to run on an SE/30 without hacking/upgrades/patches.
Secondly, its an IDE laptop drive, does anyone know where I can get the thingamajig I need to make this drive work on the SCSI bus in the SE/30?
Yup - First off you need a 2.5" to 3.5" SCSI adapter. Then you need some sort of bridge, these are avaiable in various forms.
In my 7100cx I have 1 5GB IBM Travelstar (spare and looking for trouble - didn't wanna work in my 5300 PB :-( ) lashed to an old ACARD SCSIDE bridge. It took a bit of modding to get mine in the drive bay as it's a 5.25" form factor adapter and is huge, but it works :-). You *can* now get a smaller 3.5" form factor version though. They are expensive but worth it - rarely has there been seen an 840av with a 40GB hard disk ;-)
I think a few custom brackets (or zip ties :-D ) should fix a 12mm drive dow to the carrier and then u need a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter and the ACARD bridge. Laptop drives of that age spin up instantly so ready time is no issue, what is more on machines with SCSI Manager 4.3 compliant controllers it's VERY fast, my 5GB in the 7100cx is about 2x the speed of the 2GB Seagate Hawk SCSI drive I took out.
I give you due warning however I had to apply a firmware patch to mine to get it to work in my 840av (to make it SCSI Manager 4.3 compatible and recognised by Apple's drive tools - not critical if you have Charismac, HDTK or Silverlining available for 68k Macs) that required attaching it to either a PowerMac (i did it on a Beige G3) or e-mail ACARD and ask for the 68k updating utility. I think I had to get the firmware patch from the website or by e-mail request. They are generally pretty helpful though.
I have a 512, 128k/plus, SE, SE HDFD, SE/30, Mystic G4 tower, and a 8500/G3 400, 2 IIFX's, IICI, LC, 2 7100/66, WGS 7250/120, 2 lombard PBG3, and a broken Pismo...
This solution generally works better in 1993-1998 era Macs with faster SCSI or (if you buy the version with a UWSCSI connector) with NuBus/PCI Wide SCSI cards. It will work in an SE/30 though as I've had it working in a IIci (similar age) and with every Mac OS from 7.1 to 8.1. You will need the firmware fix in order to make it bootable though, unless of course they fixed that since I bought mine!
It'd be interesting to see if this works as it opens up all sorts of possibilities for mounting multiple drives in a compact Mac, as well as large capacity drives in upgraded Color Classics.
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