ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #39
A solid-state HyperDrive will either be very expensive or a lot of hacking.
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A typical Atari ST IDE board (which would be the same hardware, essentially) is f…
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ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #38
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…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #37
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…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #36
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 …
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #35
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 …
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #34
...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…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #33
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…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #32
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…
ALERT: eBay Auction, Hyperdrive 512k in Disguise! — #31
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…
Yet another 2400c problem — #13
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.
Yet another 2400c problem — #12
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…
Yet another 2400c problem — #11
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…
Yet another 2400c problem — #10
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…
Yet another 2400c problem — #9
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 …
DVD in a Quadra? — #14
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.
iBook G3 500MHz Questions — #36
Like said, I'm just now starting to explore working on computers and what-not so I'm not perfect at this stuff. Thats one of the main reasons I bought this iBook to begin with. I g…
Nubus "SCREEN" PIF output board ver. 1.1 — #10
I'm in the picture taking mood tonight..
There's that dusty "SCREEN" PIF output board.
iBook G3 500MHz Questions — #35
It very much sounds to me like a hard disk with bad sectors, a flaky drive PCB, drive cable, or (worst case scenario) onboard IDE controller. The last seems unlikely, as you have n…
iBook G3 500MHz Questions — #34
Update:
Well, I finally dug it out of the closet. I decided I was going to tear the sucker apart to see how hard it would be to replace the hard drive if necessary. Pulled up ifix…
Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #27
I would suggest looking for some of the documents for the Color Classic "Takky" upgrade. Most of the links I have are dead, but I recall seeing a pinout for the motherboard edge co…
Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #26
Okay I'm making progress...I've gleaned the A/B pinout from here : http://homepage2.nifty.com/frogeye/connector.html
But I've read the CC uses composite sync. Pin 9 on the a/b 40…
Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #25
Nice one!
I once considered a similar project to a dying Classic, placing a miniITX or laptop board in it, but trying to find a 9" LCD screen* as I didn't have the confidence to p…
Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #24
Does anyone have the pinout info? Or a link to the Apple manual that has it? I've checked every manual i could get my hands on and none go into that level of detail.
I've done th…
Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #23
Will OSX boot into 800x600? I seem to recall there was a mod to force the CC display to this resolution ... Which for the purposes of this iTunes implementation should be perfectly…
Ohh, I'm bad. Core2Duo color classic. — #22
Will OSX boot into 800x600? I seem to recall there was a mod to force the CC display to this resolution ... Which for the purposes of this iTunes implementation should be perfectly…