On Aug 5, 2010, at 7:32 PM, JG wrote:
I'm getting into restoring a couple of old SE/30's and want to use a
SCSI to IDE adapter for storage.
I've seen a couple mentioned:
ACard AEC-7720U
I've used ACARD's "SCSIDE" products for years and years and years.
There are QUITE a few models. All are designed to do the same thing:
convert a PATA drive to SCSI.
The SCSI may be narrow or wide, standard or low voltage differential,
all according to the particular model.
A couple even have caddies for the drive so that the entire package
can physically replace a standard height 3.5" drive.
A few are specifically designed and intended for optical drives, and
those fit a 5.25" form factor quite well, but fit a 3.5" form factor
rather badly.
The firmware was updated about 5 or so years ago to support large
drives, and I have used these converters with 300 GB and 400 GB
drives, and possibly also 500 GB drives (on my Beige G3).
The main issue, as I see it, is what version of MacOS can handle a
partition that large? Surely not OS8, as I recall having to partition
the drive into rather small partitions, and Disk Utility limits the
number of partitions.
Anyway, they DO work, but for an SE/30 I would probably look for
narrow SCSI drives in the 1" high form factor, and keep the size down
to something reasonable, like 4 GB.
Finding a narrow drive larger than 9 GB will be tough, but they were
made to a least 18 GB and possibly also 36 GB.
SCSIDE converters are perhaps most useful on a Beige G3 running OS9.
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