Hi all;
I am still working on that 8500/G3 to send to a family member. OK this is the second time I've had time to touch it in 2 months.
My original intention was to just put new SCSI drive in it, but just looked at macsales.com and cheap SCSI drives are hard to find these days- 68 pin for $200? and I'd need the $15 adapter too?
Anyway I have a spare 40 gig IDE drive, and am looking for cheap ATA controllers. There's a little review from 2000 on LEM about the Sonnet ATA/66 but that's hard to find (not on ebay at this moment anyway); and I don't feel a need to drop $80 on a ATA/133 for this CPU. I do want to set it up with a new drive so I don't have to worry about talking someone through HD replacement and reinstall over the phone. I did get the little 1 gig going (it fought a little) but it's way too old for me to trust it.
Suggestions on models of IDE controllers that will work nicely with 9.1 (can this Mac even boot from an IDE controller if there is no SCSI drive?? LEM didn't say) and would be cheap are welcome.
Or a source of new 50 or 68 pin SCSI drives that would be cheap. I wish I'd bought more of them when OWC had them. Cheap 68 pin drive in an external case made nice portable storage at the time.
Thanks,
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