The drive itself was a custom SCSI 34 pin SCSI (it might not have been
exactly 34 pins). The cable arrangement is essentially a regular SCSI
cable minus the grounds.

Here is the site I found with the pinout:

http://myoldmac.net/FAQ/portable_scsi.htm

This should help. It's been done DIY style and commercially back in
the mac portable's heyday.....

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Dr. Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 8, 2012, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>>
>>
>> There was a cable made to install a normal SCSI hard drive into the
>> Portable. Dunno if there was one made to connect the Portable hard drive to
>> a standard 50 pin .1" pin spacing SCSI connector.
>
>
> Hmm.  Maybe I could *unsolder* the ribbon cable from the drive; maybe the
> edge connector itself was standar . . .
>
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