[NCLUG] [offtopic] Looking for old SCSI stuff

[Marcio Luis Teixeira]

Hi Jeff,



Thanks for the offer, but 68-pin or LVD drives would not work for me,
at least not without adaptors that I don't have and that are probably
hard to find. I should have been more specific that was looking more
for old SCSI-1, 50 pin drives, probably old paperweights in the
sub-1GB range.



The Mac Plus has a non-compliant SCSI implementation, so the

thing with drives is a very hit-and-miss affair. There are issues with

lack of bus termination power and the fact the Plus does not

like the Unit Attention feature of most drives. I've only gotten

one 40 MB drive to work so far. Other drives are reputed to work with

hardware hacks, such as cutting the unit attention wire on the

cable or splicing power directly into the bus, although I haven't

experimented with this approach yet (mostly because I don't have

enough sacrificial parts).



BTW, on the issue of splicing cables, if anyone has with 50 pins

Centronics SCSI connectors on the ends (the sort of

crap I used to salvage from old SCSI enclosures with dead power

supplies, but had never found a use for, until now, long after I tossed
them), that would be great for this sort of hardware level hacking.



And yes, for the people who are telling me this is hardly worth all

the effort, you're right -- but how often do you get a computer

you can HACK with wire-cutters and a soldering iron and
still have a good change of succeeding? This is FUN.



-- Marcio



----- Original Message ----
From: Jeffrey D. Means <meaje at meanspc.com>
To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group <nclug at nclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:20:02 AM
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] [offtopic] Looking for old SCSI stuff

Marcio, I have several SCSI drive I would not mind parting with they all
worked the last time I spun them up last one was 2 years ago... If you
want them I will sell them $25.00 (4 drives) for the lot and you can see
what works or doesn't if that suits you.

What I have:
 - Segate ST318203LC 18.2Gb (LVD) (listed as factory re-certified)
 - Segate ST318203LW  18.2Gb (68pin)
 - Segate ST3473LW 4.5 Gb (68pin)
 - IBM / Hitachi ECE32057 9.1Gb (LVD)

I also have some 9Gb that are in external cases if you would be
interested in those as well.  Let me know what if any of this you are
interested in.

Jeff Means





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