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Post #6 by CP5670
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateSat, 5 Dec 2009 - 18:27
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/mac-hd-file-transferring.18757/
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I finally got around to trying this out, but haven't had much success so far. I borrowed an Adaptec 29160N card from a friend, which has a 50-pin connector, and hooked up the Mac drive to it. The card works fine on its own but once I connect the drive, the whole system becomes extremely slow and Windows takes over 10 minutes to load. The card detects the drive and it shows up in HFV Explorer and HFSExplorer after Windows loads, but they can't read any data off it.

I'm wondering if there is some SCSI or jumper setting I haven't set properly. The drive is an IBM WDS-L160 and I found this page on it, but the jumper settings on the Mac model may be different. The Mac had the motherboard, CD drive and hard drive connected in that order, and the hard drive had a single jumper on pins 3 and 4 by default. The SCSI card has termination on its side, but I can't tell what the drive is doing with termination on its end.

Any ideas? It's not a big deal if this whole thing doesn't work out, but I thought I would check if I'm missing something simple.

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