Brian got the ball rolling thusly:
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? ---------- Yeah, SCSI's expensive unless you do some hard-nosed shopping.
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.
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My experience with trying to find "affordable" ATA controllers is that it's really tough. ATA/66 cards are pretty hard to find, and tend to cost almost as much as 100/133 cards.
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.
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Sure, ATA controllers work just fine in PowerSurge (Old World) Macs. Acard and SIIG are two models I'm comfortable with. Sonnet sells rebadged controllers from other mfr's, tend to cost a bit more.
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. ---------- Occasionally interesting stuff here: http://www.softwareandstuff.com/hdwstorage.html
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And Dan S has other SCSI concerns:
I bought one of those and there's no
provision for termination, so it can't be the last on the chain. I haven't
decided how to try to arrange the stuff in my 8600 yet, but I keep reading
about some people needing to take it to a PC to format, and then try to put
it into the Mac and the Mac will be able to see it at least.
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Yeah, Ultra2 drives require active termination, usually external. I bought new cables with terminators, rather than trying to use the stock SCSI ribbon cables. It's generally a good idea, anyway - older cables could prove to be a choke point for optimum data transfer rate.
And if you need 80-pin adapters you can find them at the above linked site, or the prices here aren't too bad:
http://www.mcpb.com/html/sesca02.html
I'm currently juggling drives/controllers amongst two 9600's and a G3'ed PowerCenter MT. Always ready to chew the ear off anyone who's willing to listen to my FrankenMac Tales....;^P
I guess this topic never gets old, as long as folks are determined to get more storage in
an older machine.
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Just the hardware (and the owners) keep getting older....
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