Guess nobody else has a PCD-50B, then :?:
I actually ordered one of the AztecMonsters shortly after making my original post in this thread, and was told the same thing (factory has production problems; it will be ready 10-14 days later) that I had been told fully two weeks earlier when I first made an enquiry about availability and shipping. I thought perhaps he was working with a fabricate-on-demand supplier, but it appears the reality may be less pleasant.
Since the AztecMonster was designed specifically with systems like the SE/30 and Plus in mind, I'm hoping that - should I ever receive it - it will prove a less-annoying alternative to both the terribly finicky PCD-50B and noisy, aging hard disks.
I actually ordered one of the AztecMonsters shortly after making my original post in this thread, and was told the same thing (factory has production problems; it will be ready 10-14 days later) that I had been told fully two weeks earlier when I first made an enquiry about availability and shipping. I thought perhaps he was working with a fabricate-on-demand supplier, but it appears the reality may be less pleasant.
It actually fits inside the SE/30, even with an Ethernet card and daughterboard installed to the back of the chassis. Granted, you have to mount it pretty far back for the required PCMCIA-CF adapter to clear the front of the case, and you can only attach it with two screws, but it fits nevertheless. I acquired a longer internal SCSI cable with the intention of mounting the reader backwards, with the SCSI connection toward the front of the case and the CF pointing out toward the back, to permit swapping cards with only a removal of the rear cover required (as I'm not interested in cutting a hole in the back of my case). However, the fact that only more esoteric software (FWB) will even format installed cards (A/UX Drive Setup and Lido cough and die with an error that they cannot write to the drive) dampens my enthusiasm for making the effort necessary to keep separate System 6/7 Pro, A/UX, and Debian cards around.
Since the AztecMonster was designed specifically with systems like the SE/30 and Plus in mind, I'm hoping that - should I ever receive it - it will prove a less-annoying alternative to both the terribly finicky PCD-50B and noisy, aging hard disks.