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Greetings & Salutations!
I am looking at picking up one of these drives along with a 80pin to 50 pin adapter for the Q700. I pulled the docs for the drive, it states there is a jumper setting on the drive to force it into Single Ended Mode. From reading this means it should work in my mac correct?
Check that your 80-to-50 pin adapter has a termination setting. Not all of these adaptors do (as I have found out) and it is a nuisance in a machine like a Quadra 700 where you probably have no other SCSI devices.
My guess is that you are correct. However, I check for 8-bit SCSI support in the docs otherwise you are going to need a FWB JackHammer or an ATTO SiliconExpress IV.
My guess is that you are correct. However, I check for 8-bit SCSI support in the docs otherwise you are going to need a FWB JackHammer or an ATTO SiliconExpress IV.
Drives working can be a quite random occourance, from what i have read backwards compatibility with scsi1 was in the scsi spec for U160 but it was removed from the U320 spec, so U160 drives are a better bet (as for if being able to set it to single ended helps, i don't know) Another thing worth looking out for is some drives actually have a narrow mode, any drive with a narrow mode should work
Also, just so you know, I make and sell terminated 50pin to 80pin adapters (which also have the 8 unused data lines terminated on the 80 pin hdd, allowing some of the more fussy drives to work)
Also, just so you know, I make and sell terminated 50pin to 80pin adapters (which also have the 8 unused data lines terminated on the 80 pin hdd, allowing some of the more fussy drives to work)
Nice to see you here Thanks for the warm welcome, guys. It's good to see the community stick together while the sister site is down. And nice to see a site that specifically deals with the PPC Macs.
Now I have to see if I can convince my wife to let me get the StarMax back from my father so I can do a little bit of hardware/software hacking on the thing.
Now I have to see if I can convince my wife to let me get the StarMax back from my father so I can do a little bit of hardware/software hacking on the thing.