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>At 4:55 AM -0400 7/12/01, SuperMacs List wrote:
>>Message-Id: <f04310101b772f5e3f3ac@[192.168.9.25]>
>>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:35:23 -0700
>>From: Brian Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: [SM] s900 questions - no boot, no pic
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>>>Now I have a Mac 6100 with a good harddrive, I thought I could just swap it
>>>and go from there but the pin configuration is different (2 rows on S900
>>>hdrive, 1 row on 6100 hdrive)
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>>>A) Is there a pin adapter so I can use the 6100 drive in the S900?
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>>The drive from the 6100 is IDE. There's no way to adapt it for use
>>with the S900's built-in SCSI. You'd have to get an IDE PCI card.
>Sorry but you are mistaken. The 6100 uses 50 pin SCSI drives. I
>don't think any Mac yet had IDE drives when the 6100 arrived. I
>belive the 630 series were the first with IDE drives. I'm wondering
>if the problem could be that he's trying to hook a 50 pin SCSI
>drive to a ribbon cable that is hooked to a PCI SCSI card that is
>Ultra wide or some other configuration. The 6100 drive should work
>on the on-board SCSI ribbon. Will S
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