In working with these drives I have found some updates:
Cheap chinese/ebay 68 to 50 pin adapter just didn't work for me. Adapters purchased elsewhere worked ok. Which is a shame, because the cheap adapter was well, cheap, and it had a better design so it fit inside a mac better.
At first format, the drive would show up with the SCSI ID selected by the jumper on the drive. The adapter has no jumpers. Once formatted (with Lido, haven't tried others just yet) the jumper setting didn't matter, it always shows as ID 0. Once I had unplugged the original mac drive, the new one showed up again. Now I have it set up with the original drive as ID 2 and this new drive as ID 0. Very very strange behavior indeed. Drive is still usable, but there's less flexibility than I had hoped.
The drive is fast and much quieter than the original drive, and I haven't seen them get particularly hot. I got a dozen of them for something like $3 each shipped, so despite the troubles I'm happy. Even considering the cost of the adapter these were some really cheap replacement drives.
Cheap chinese/ebay 68 to 50 pin adapter just didn't work for me. Adapters purchased elsewhere worked ok. Which is a shame, because the cheap adapter was well, cheap, and it had a better design so it fit inside a mac better.
At first format, the drive would show up with the SCSI ID selected by the jumper on the drive. The adapter has no jumpers. Once formatted (with Lido, haven't tried others just yet) the jumper setting didn't matter, it always shows as ID 0. Once I had unplugged the original mac drive, the new one showed up again. Now I have it set up with the original drive as ID 2 and this new drive as ID 0. Very very strange behavior indeed. Drive is still usable, but there's less flexibility than I had hoped.
The drive is fast and much quieter than the original drive, and I haven't seen them get particularly hot. I got a dozen of them for something like $3 each shipped, so despite the troubles I'm happy. Even considering the cost of the adapter these were some really cheap replacement drives.