Craig Ringer wrote:
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 23:13, James / Hans Kunz wrote:
you cannot just change wires to get a scsi harddisk to work on a ata
system, the internal (burned into the ic on the hd) software protocol
is to different plus the formatting gives another headache.
Yes, I'm well aware of that. I don't know what in my message gave you
the impression that I was suggesting that could be done. All I said was
that I thought the 7600 was ATA based, not SCSI based. In other words, I
thought it was made after Apple made the transition from SCSI hard disks
to ATA ones for the internal disks in PowerMacs.
(As a curiosity, it _is_ apparently possible to use SATA disks on Serial
Attached SCSI controllers. Cool, eh?)
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Craig Ringer
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50 pin connectors being so wide makes it easy to bend the end pins,
which I did repeatedly, then, number 1 pin broke off!
Shock horror!
So an intrepid friend and I managed to solder a single wire, salvaged
from an IDE cable as I didnt have the heart to destroy an actual scsi
cable, just behind the cable connector on the HDD.
I then got an intact scsi cable connected it normally to the HDD and
Mainboard.
Now the tricky bit, I simply pushed the bared end of the little wire
we'd soldered into the number 1 hole in the NEXT connector along the
scsi cable.
Even though I accidentally yanked it out during boot up, it still worked
when I just popped it back in!
Data recovered, sweating ceased;)
Cheers
Paul
