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Post #52 by Elfen

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Wed, 17 Jun 2015 - 01:28
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/ide-sd.1817/

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gsteemso said:
Short of laboriously (and dangerously, considering the fragile case plastics) opening my 540c to see what kind of hard drive it has, is there any way to tell whether it has an IDE or a SCSI hard drive? I vaguely recall that the earliest Mac IDE implementations masqueraded as SCSI to the system software, so I don’t believe the machine could tell me from its own knowledge, even if I were to find a System Profiler workalike that old.

I had to scour the net and the forum. The 520 - 550c uses SCSI hard drives. This I have to apologize for. Sorry for the screw up.

But here is the basis of that screw up, there are a couple of old posts of members using the Aztec CF Monster Laptop SCSI Adapter to use a CF in a powerbook. CFs are IDE in nature.

I've seen these adapters on Ebay go for $120 or so from a couple of Japanese sellers.