Replacement for SCSI HDD

[Windows2000]

Now that I'm trying to free up some time, I want to clean up my list of things to do in my collection. Starting with my Apple Centris 610.

I bought it without a hard disk but SCSI drives are very hard to come by and I would like to get this machine up and running. Is there anything I can do with it on a feasible budget?

 

[olePigeon]

I may have an 80MB SCSI drive you could have for the cost of shipping (probably $5.75, or however much it is for the small flat rate USPS box.)

 

[njroadfan]

Any 50-pin SCSI hard drive will be a drop-in replacement for that era Mac. Formatting it with Apple's tools requires a patched copy of Apple HD SC Setup or the later Drive Setup. No need for an "Apple ROM" drive these days.

 

[RWallmow]

Most 68pin SCSI drives will also work with a simple adapter and patched Apple HD SC Setup or 3rd party software like LIDO or FWB Toolkit to format them. I have noticed even Patched HD SC Setup is still quirky on some drives, but either LIDO 7 or FWB Toolkit should get ANY other detected drive working.

I am using a 9.1gb IBM 68-pin SCSI drive in my SE, and I have another 9.1 to eventually go in my SE/30 too once I get more 50<>68pin adapters ;-)

 

[Windows2000]

I was probably looking for the wrong drive to have figured it's hard to come by. I was probably looking at 80-pin and not 50-pin.

Would I also be able to use a bridge to connect an IDE to the SCSI port? It would be a performance sacrifice but I have numerous IDE drives I could make use of.

 

[olePigeon]

IDE to SCSI adapters are about $120. They're fairly cost prohibitive. 68-pin SCSI drives are fairly cheap (even 15K RPM one), you'd probably do best to get one of those and an adapter. 80-pin to 50-pin may work, but it really comes down to the adapter. I don't know of any consensus on which brand adapter works, and I've had one actually kill a HDD.