AppleFile

The drive still makes the suspicious sound like it's repeating seeks and through Drive Setup at least it will fail to partition and format for the ProDOS file system (We'll see it the Apple II utility fairs better) but otherwise the drive is performing flawlessly. I'll leave it at that.

As for the cabling I pulled out another SCSI enclosure that had a factory made variant to the cable I made. That one works so tomorrow I'll reverse engineer that one and see what changed.

VERY project results, comrade.

How's the marker/grime removal going? If the spray paint is acrylic/latex, try a water wet cloth with a little bit of turpentine, that's how I used to remove Stabillo grease pencil layout line residue off a ll kinds of paint in the shop. Sometimes Pledge or the like works wonders for removing grime.

A little nose grease wiped with a clean rag rarely hurts and ofttimes helps as well. ;D

Here's my "It's 2:30 AM and I want to go to f*#% to sleep so I hope after four goofed repins THIS one better f@ing work" replacement SCSI cable.

Turns out I was pinning it completely wrong and for got to account that the way the ribbon cable crimps interleaves pins in a 1, 14, 2, 15, 3, 16 etc fashion.



Amazingly it did work so now the unit is...

COMPLETE

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the AppleFile. The worlds first SCSI hard disk, exclusively for the Apple IIe line of personal computers.

That is awesome

Looks awesome! Hard to judge with the lighting in the pic but the paint match looks to be spot on compared to the monitor. The LED diffuser looks sharp as well, very professional looking. Nicely done.

I hope your smile is as big as mine. That looks really, really cool!

DUDE!!! It made Hackaday front page!!!!!!

Does the LED always stay on or does it just come on when the disk's being accessed? If the former, I think it would be better if it was the latter.

The drive has a header for an external activity LED so yes it only comes on when the drive is busy.

Very cool!