Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-08 Thread Joost van de Griek
On 2002-04-08 13:49, "the pickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 17:35 +1000 on 08/04/02, Darren wrote: > >> Are 2.5" drives all ide? I've never seen a scsi one. > > Most (all?) of the PowerBooks (other than the Portable) up to about 1994 > used 2.5" SCSI drives. All of the 100 series PowerBo

Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-08 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part #DT-327A. who's part? Dont know. Thats all > thats written > on the box, comes with mounting rails and power > cord. price about > $10us. As mentioned, you will wont a IDE bigger mac > to use it in > or a pc. 40 pins compared with scsi 50 pins. > Are

Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter

2002-04-08 Thread the pickle
At 13:46 -0700 on 08/04/02, l k m wrote: >So I guess I'm out of luck, too many apples & oranges & banana and kiwi >trying to get a 2.5" IDE drive in a Plus-era SCSI case. > >I'm assuming the 2.5" from the PowerBook 3400 is IDE. Correct me if I'm >wrong. You're quite correct. the pickle FAQ

Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter

2002-04-08 Thread l k m
So I guess I'm out of luck, too many apples & oranges & banana and kiwi trying to get a 2.5" IDE drive in a Plus-era SCSI case. I'm assuming the 2.5" from the PowerBook 3400 is IDE. Correct me if I'm wrong. Figure I'll put it up for trade on the swap list. Thanks for the help, Laura -- Vinta

Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-08 Thread the pickle
At 17:35 +1000 on 08/04/02, Darren wrote: >Are 2.5" drives all ide? I've never seen a scsi one. Most (all?) of the PowerBooks (other than the Portable) up to about 1994 used 2.5" SCSI drives. They're not made any more, but there *are* very small OEM-only SCSI-to-IDE adapters. MCE sells such a

Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-08 Thread Darren
Part #DT-327A. who's part? Dont know. Thats all thats written on the box, comes with mounting rails and power cord. price about $10us. As mentioned, you will wont a IDE bigger mac to use it in or a pc. 40 pins compared with scsi 50 pins. Are 2.5" drives all ide? I've never seen a scsi one. l k

Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-07 Thread the pickle
At 08:04 +0200 on 08/04/02, Joost van de Griek wrote: >Provided the external case in question is for use with IDE drives, that is. > >If this is a SCSI case, no go. Weeelll...you *could* put an ACARD adapter on the 2.5-to-3.5 IDE adapter, but that seems a bit too much trouble (and REALLY expensi

Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-07 Thread Joost van de Griek
On 2002-04-07 19:34, "the pickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:10 -0700 on 07/04/02, l k m wrote: > >> I have a 2.5 inch hard drive pulled from a PowerBook (3400) that I'd love to >> install into an external hard drive case (set up for the bigger Mac hard >> drives, 50 pin) and use on my d

Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-07 Thread rlf9
Vintage Macs wrote... >Subject: 2.5" Hard drive adapter? >From: l k m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I have a 2.5 inch hard drive pulled from a PowerBook (3400) that I'd love to >install

Re: 2.5" Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-07 Thread the pickle
At 07:10 -0700 on 07/04/02, l k m wrote: >I have a 2.5 inch hard drive pulled from a PowerBook (3400) that I'd love to >install into an external hard drive case (set up for the bigger Mac hard >drives, 50 pin) and use on my desktop Mac. Is there an adapter that'll alow >me to plug in this tiny li

2.5" Hard drive adapter?

2002-04-07 Thread l k m
I have a 2.5 inch hard drive pulled from a PowerBook (3400) that I'd love to install into an external hard drive case (set up for the bigger Mac hard drives, 50 pin) and use on my desktop Mac. Is there an adapter that'll alow me to plug in this tiny little guy? Thanks, Laura -- Vintage Macs is