The SE/30 and the broken disk drive

#1 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 - 18:18

Hi

As is the tradition at this time of year, my nicely manicured hard disk is just off south for the winter, complete with the contents. My SE/30 is not happy.

EBay seems expensive for replacements. I have got a load of Sun SCA disks lying around (4GB iirc). If I get myself an adapter (e.g., SCSI SCA 80Pin to IDC 50Pin Adapter (on ebay as we speak)) do you think I'd have problems connecting one to the SE/30? Has anyone got experience of doing anything similar? Is the poor geriatric power supply going to give out after 10 minutes?! :ii:

Thanks!

#2 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 - 23:04

I tried this, didn't have much sucess but it might still be possible. Maybe try to get an adapter with active termination.

http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17343

#3 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 - 02:21

you can battle for these ones-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Quantum-240S-SCSI-drive-240-mb-/220918507305?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item336fc4e729

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Quantum-85S-SCSI-drive-85-mb-/220918509015?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item336fc4edd7

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-APPLE-Quantum-Fireball-3-5-Series-1GB-Hard-Drive-Scsi-50-Pin-/190619013574?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c61c751c6

hard to find cheap. :-/

#4 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 - 15:08

Thanks. Good information about the SCA conversion. Sorry I missed the thread.

I might have a look at the AztecMonster thing instead, as this may be a better long term solution...

Cheers again!