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From: the pickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Vintage Macs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, July 23, 2001 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: Format a PC IDE Drive
>At 00:35 -0700 on 23/07/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>
>>Black*Fire http://www.blackfire.com.au/ makes an
>>IDE to SCSI conversion adaptor that plugs directly
>>onto the back of an IDE device to convert it to SCSI.
>>Unfortunately it will only fit in a 5.25" bay, even
>>when used with a 3.5" drive.
>
>...and AFAIK, no one has ever been able to get Blackfire to sell to
>individuals. The ACARD IDE-to-SCSI converter works perfectly well and
>doesn't have these silly limitations (like being too big to fit a 3.5" bay)
>IIRC. Check out
>
>http://www.acard.com/
>
>p
This seems like a pie-in-the-sky idea right now. See this site:
http://www.paylesscomputer.com/rarepart/7720u.html
The price prevents me from calling this a viable idea. There's a
lot of good older SCSI drives out there for less than the advertised price.
Jeff
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