My 40/80/160 Mb SCSI Hard disk are all dying. — #27

Post #27 by OtakuMegane

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 - 11:22
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/my-40-80-160-mb-scsi-hard-disk-are-all-dying.16326/

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http://www.mars-tech.com/aec-7720u.htm

These things go for cheap on eBay all the time.

Scott, to use that adapter, from what I know, you'll need a Mac that uses ultra-wide SCSI, and I'm pretty sure those compacts and pizza boxes don't. You'll have to check the Apple service manuals.

No Mac ever had built-in ultra-wide (68-pin). Wide SCSI wasn't even out till 1994. An ultra scsi (50-pin) adapter should work just fine though, the Mac will simply run it at the old SCSI-1/2 speeds instead of Ultra. Parallel SCSI protocols have always been nicely forward-backward compatible, you just have to adapt for the physical connectors.