OP was looking for more HD space in a 180, and eBay is the place to buy. Of the larger(!) scsi drives which come up with any degree of regularity, I'd say the 320mb is the most common with the 500mb/540mb trailing a bit behind. 320s go for ~$5 on up to ~$50 with $25 a normal result. The 500/540 drives go for a little bit more, say ~$10 to ~$60 with $35 a common sale price.
So it kind of depends on how quickly the drive is needed. If one can be a bit patient I reckon anyone can acquire something larger for rather less. Actually, the _cheapest_ way to buy such drives is to look for complete PBs with these drives inside. Strangely they frequently seem to sell for _less_ than just the drives themselves. For anything larger, an IDE-SCSI adapter plus ATA HD is the way to go, those 800mb-1.2GB scsi drives are too rare (and usually too pricey), and too slow to bother with. Adapters (like those described below) do still pop up on eBay, I just recently snagged a HD-less ADTX for the princely sum of $7! I'll couple it with a 4GB or 6GB drive for one or another of my various vintage PBs. ------------------------------------------------------------- If anyone cares to know more, here's my FAQ-of-sorts on 2.5" IDE-SCSI adapters: I'm aware of five IDE-to-SCSI adapters, ACARD, ADTX, Addonics, Artmix and Century. Of those, I have a pair each of the ADTX and Century adapters. The 2.5" ACARD adapter is no longer being made according to the ACARD engineer with whom I spoke at MacWorld/CreativePro NY 2003. I'd never heard of an ACARD 2.5" adapter until then, but according to the engineer with whom I spoke they did indeed make such an animal at some point. ADTX may still make their adapter, at least it is still listed on their website. This was the unit Apple sold, as a 1GB drive for use in the scsi PBs. The same drive/adapter combo was sold by aftermarket vendors (eg: MicroTech) for PowerBooks, SparcBooks, etc. Apparently IBM owns (owned?) a piece of ADTX. <http://www.adtx.com/us/> <http://www.adtx.com/us/conv-SCSI-IDE.html> more info: <http://mickey.lucifier.net/adtx/> The Addonics item linked below is for an adapter for 3.5" HDs, I don't know if they make anything for 2.5". I don't know anything else about this outfit. <http://www.addonics.com/products/hub_adapter_converter/ide_scsi.asp> Artmix looks almost like some kind of Mac 'club' or co-operative, here's a product page link: <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.artmix.com%2Fj_sales.html> more info: <http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lin kclub.or.jp%2F%7Ehero%2FOldies%2FPeripherals%2F25SCSI_IDE.html&lp=ja_en&tt= url> Century's is currently available, one of mine is in a PPC540C/166 attached to an IBM 30 gigger: <http://online.century.co.jp/BittradeTest/e_shop/chb25int.html> With the Apple 1GB+ADTX PB SCSI drive, you can replace the drive with any 12.5mm or thinner IDE drive. However my ADTX adapters can recognize only a max of ~8GB, where the Century adapters have a 32GB limit. Also, the ADTX adapters I have are somewhat slow, the Century is faster (ADTX = ~400K/s vs. Century = ~1.1MB/S) in a PB 500. Of course, neither can make anywhere near complete use of modern HD speed as a SCSI PowerBook's scsi bus is the bottleneck. The Century adapter is not cheap at ~$90, the Artmix item costs less but I don't know if they will ship to the US. An ADTX adapter (most likely still attached to its original HD) can be had on eBay for $20 to $100 depending on the phase of the moon, the current Dow index level . . . etc. :-) hth, Dan K ................................. http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 ................................. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
