Just be careful of the heat being generated by that 10k drive. I worked for a small computer place in the late 90's that custom built machines. We put together a server with a pair of Cheetah drives (the 10k drives presumably the same as you speak of) and then they kept failing. Turned out they didn't have adequate cooling and were slowly roasting themselves to death. Put them in drive bay adapters with fans and they were fine after that. I mention this because I doubt the LC475 has much in the way of cooling for the drive. If you're not sure, let it run for a half hour or so and ease the cover off and touch the drive... Stock drives in those machines were probably 5400rpm (or slower) drives that didn't generate much if any heat... Another option might be to pick up an external enclosure with decent cooling and run it that way...that would also probably get around your termination issues... Thinking on it further, I think it would be accurate to say LVD SE drives don't have termination capabilities...seems to me all those that I saw (in the PC world) came with cables that had a terminator pack built onto the end of them... Wesley
_____ From: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com [mailto:vintage-macs@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Holder Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 11:47 PM To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com Subject: Re[2]: LVD-adapted drive and SCSI Voodoo question I guess the 25-pin terminator might be the path of least resistance, and it's not like it'd make it hugely more clumsy. I'll look into that, thanks. The drive itself is an 18gb drive, model SR318404LC. Nothing especially fancy about it, though the 10k RPM performance compared to the old 5400 rpm external 2gb drive I was using with it is very nice. I remember seeing the resistor modules on plain 50-pin drives, but this drive doesn't have anything like that. I'm not sure LVD drives normally would. I've only dealt with a couple (the one this adapter used to be attached to before it died) and it worked fine in a Beige G3 with no additional work involved. I guess it could be worse, it's already a huge upgrade! Scott ------ Original Message ------ From: "'Keith Jamison' via Vintage Macs" <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> To: "vintage-macs@googlegroups.com" <vintage-macs@googlegroups.com> Sent: 2/1/2015 9:23:06 AM Subject: Re: LVD-adapted drive and SCSI Voodoo question Hi Scott, I pulled 210MB SCSI (50-pin) drives from several Sun machines and none of them worked until I added termination. I used inline resistor modules and plugged them into the sockets near to the 50-way connector. I guess this wont be useful in your case but, as I don't know what your drive looks like, I can't help you further. Jonathan, that's a great suggestion. Can anyone suggest a possible termination device that fits into the DA25 socket, please? Cheers all, Keith On Sunday, 1 February 2015, 4:40, Jonathan Morton <chromati...@gmail.com> wrote: It may be that all you need is a terminator plugged directly into the external SCSI port. - Jonathan Morton -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
