Well then. I will start carving away at the silly support posts in one IIsi case (all you si owners know what I'm talking about-- That empty space under the drives) with pliers and a chisel perhaps Saturday. As to the PDS/NuBus thoughts, I'll scrounge as many adapters as I think will fit in the case, and after that, I don't quite think I need an external 8 slot tower...
I opened the "Apple CD 150" and found a 300i Plus inside. This will fit inside the IIsi, but only vertically. I mean the tray will come straight up out of the case. I think in this respect a caddy would have been better... Oh well. Maybe I'll swap the CD out and instead make it a 5 or 6-drive network server... This 'Atlas II 3.5" Series' drive is making me angry. It is a 68pin wide drive, and I do have the adapter to make it fit the internal ribbon cable. However, I see no place on the drive for termination resistors to go, and there are 22 juumper configurations (you may be thinking, "those aren't jumpers! That's an IDE drive! Idiot!") in two rows. The drive has stated on it what these various pins do, but they are very confusing, and I got the drive as-is for a couple bucks, so no manual. The first time I hooked it up to the inside of my IIci, Silverlining saw the drive (I believe 2GB), but couldn't do ANYTHING to it, claiming it couldn't access the drive reliably. The terminated external SCSI HD still worked perfectly. I messed with a couple jumpers that had 'term' in the label, but no go. Silverlining said the SCSI bus wasn't responding (booted with a 6.0.8 floppy). I tried again with different settings, but then Silverlining saw the bus but no drives. Remove Atlas, reboot, bus and external drive fine. It was not an ID issue, as the external was ID1, and the first time I tried the Atlas it was ID6. Now that I messed with jumpers, it might be an id issue, though. I'll try putting it in an external case and manually terminate it (or get an internal terminator block to put on the end of my internal 50pin cable?) Oh well. Funny, the total cost of all my 8 Macs was under $250... ---------------------------------------------- Alan O'Neil My Dual-Monitor Mac cost over $8,000 new! HAH! ---------------------------------------------- -- Vintage Macs 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> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:vintage.macs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:vintage.macs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:vintage.macs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
