I don't think this SCSI disk is in the best of shape so I'm going to knock that idea on the head. Plus it's all a mystery to me. Apple sold 68-pin drives but put in SCSI cards with 50-pin connectors. Think different indeed.

I tried connecting the Fireball with a 40-pin cable but the chime was as far as the system would boot. Quantum released fixes that would limit ATA-66 drives to ATA-33, but not for the EL series. I'm not too keen on putting in an ATA card because OS X Server is notoriously picky about hardware and there's no telling if it would work with one. And I could buy another G3 for the price of a well-used SCSI disk off eBay.

The only thing left to try is to see if I can attach the drive to the same controller as the ODD and Zip. It might just work but at what speed...