I just registered here. I have a Performa 600CD that had gone strong for 17 years, but died a year ago with the same issue described here while I was loading up some game. It probably isn't worth trying to fix the machine unless it's something simple, as I can run most of the old programs in emulators these days. I would like to get some things off its 160MB hard drive though, which I think is still operational.

Does anyone know what kind of SCSI interface this drive uses and how I would go about hooking it up to a modern (Windows XP) computer? I'm guessing I can get some old SCSI PCI card off ebay and read the drive with HFV Explorer, but I'm not sure what exactly I need to buy.