Would be nice to have to see if it would recognize the macbottom serial HDD as it is.

Symantec Tools is a newer variant that sprang forth from the older Symantec Utilities for Macintosh (SUM). I have version 1.1 of SUM. Symantec Tools is part of Disk Clinic (which…

not sure about symantec tools, I am talking about Symantec Utilities for Macintosh Version 1.1 before it became Norton. From the Wiki, it supposedly understands the old HDD systems…

I have something called Symantec Tools 1.0. Is that the same thing? I see in the disk drive parameter volume folder three MacBottom configurations, 20/32/40. It also defines the Ap…

Would be nice if it would talk to the macbottom HDD. Research concludes on macbottom, that Symantec utilities 1.1 would work with HD20/macbottom/etc, but i havent found a copy.

So here's a recent Tecmar drive sale on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250993088572 So the seller says this: Tecmar made several versions…

nice drawer icons, can you copy them and put them online?

I've just posted another 720p video here that shows the HyperDrive Mac 512 booting to the Desktop: I also shot it from the side while booting, with the case back off.

I just added 11 new HyperDrive photos today: https://picasaweb.google.com/103365672326265854011/GCCHyperDrive20DriveMechanism Be sure to read the commentary beneath each photo, a…

A solid-state HyperDrive will either be very expensive or a lot of hacking. Click to expand... A typical Atari ST IDE board (which would be the same hardware, essentially) is f…

The easy way to put a hard disk emulator in a Mac 512 is to add one of the SCSI-equipped upgrades and Mac Plus ROMs. From there, add a notebook SCSI drive like I have in mine, or u…

Yeah, the emulator products are priced so they might make sense if you desperately need to keep some dedicated industrial computer running. (You'll find MFM or RLL hard disks float…

I found an exact flash replacement for my MMI M112 drive: http://www.datexdsm.com/disc/disque33.html But the price is not shown, which leads me to believe it may be as costly as …

There actually are a couple commercial solutions for replacing MFM/RLL hard drives with either SATA or flash... but they are turn-your-hair-white expensive, unfortunately. (North …

...almost *any* MFM (or RLL, they're the same hardware, just the data encoding method differs) hard drive with four or more heads and of suitable physical size would work as a repl…

I suppose this is useless trivia, but according to the platter/head/cylinder layout (2/4/306) that MMI drive in your Hyperdrive is from a logical standpoint literally a shrunken cl…

Thanks for posting those pictures. Now there IS documentation of an MMI mechanism available. I guess I should post pictures of my old disk drives for reference too. That big list c…

An individual who used to be a GCC HyperDrive dealer in the 80's contacted me recently and we've had a long discussion about our respective units. He inspired me to take shoot add…

I bought a nice 133x Kingston CF card for my WS. 133x is faster than most of the pre-G4 portables can do. It usually maxes the bus on my WS, plus was only $30 something for a 16GB.

Well, my solid-state drive is just a bog-standard $20 CF card, so I would not expect to see such blinding results at this end. Still, some of the test results on random reads in pa…

Keep in mind that they test sequential. The issue with hard drives over solid state is the latency as it moves from one physical area, having to reposition the head, then wait for…

And the MacBench results are in: Internal CF drive is nearly twice as fast as CF in PCMCIA adapter (cardbus enabled); Internal CF drive is overall marginally slower than conventi…

I returned for most of the day to the subject of this thread, and thought I might resurrect the thread itself, having had another go at replacing the hard drive in my 2400c with a …

By the way... will the Apple CD/DVD Driver from 8.1 support a non-Apple SCSI DVD-ROM drive? For instance, Toshiba M1401, which seems to be easily found and rather unexpensive.

I'm in the picture taking mood tonight.. There's that dusty "SCREEN" PIF output board.