took a trip to my local scrap yard today and guess what I scored
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2 IBM scsi drives in 2 old video monitoring machines. 1 had the 50 pin scsi connector the other has the sca 80, but that had a 80pin to 50 pin adapter
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plugged them in and they spin up. the third one the Seagate , I got from an old server months ago in the same place, wont spin up at all!!
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initialized them in Anubis and they seem to be fine.When formatting it says 'formatting drive with interleave of 1'.....is that normal with....all the old apple drives the interleave is always 0. I have no idea. The adapter thingy works perfect, though I don't think it will fit in a mac!
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1 thing is they both make a high pitch sound........its not the sound from the drive last night , as in a scraping sound of the head 'cutting' the platter. Its a smooth, constant, high frequency sound of the rpm. Is that normal od these drives.
its a bit loud. But they seem to work fine. I backed up all my software onto both. My old external , the one that is starting to click, took 5 or 6 starts before it would come up , but it faithfully passed over all its software to the 2 scsi's
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feeling better about the drive fiasco
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anyone ever see this kind of SCA 80 to 50 pin adapter before
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cheers
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2 IBM scsi drives in 2 old video monitoring machines. 1 had the 50 pin scsi connector the other has the sca 80, but that had a 80pin to 50 pin adapter
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plugged them in and they spin up. the third one the Seagate , I got from an old server months ago in the same place, wont spin up at all!!
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initialized them in Anubis and they seem to be fine.When formatting it says 'formatting drive with interleave of 1'.....is that normal with....all the old apple drives the interleave is always 0. I have no idea. The adapter thingy works perfect, though I don't think it will fit in a mac!
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1 thing is they both make a high pitch sound........its not the sound from the drive last night , as in a scraping sound of the head 'cutting' the platter. Its a smooth, constant, high frequency sound of the rpm. Is that normal od these drives.
its a bit loud. But they seem to work fine. I backed up all my software onto both. My old external , the one that is starting to click, took 5 or 6 starts before it would come up , but it faithfully passed over all its software to the 2 scsi's
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feeling better about the drive fiasco
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anyone ever see this kind of SCA 80 to 50 pin adapter before
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cheers