5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
1:19 p.m.
Ray Arachelian wrote:
Don Y wrote:
Even luckier -- it *came* with it! ;-)
I put 64M in my Voyager but want to upgrade the
800M (?)
drive. Unfortunately, small SCSI drives are hard to find.
And, the display on the Voyager is painfully small.
You're lucky to have found the RAM for it - those are rare. There are 2.5" SCSI-IDE bridges out there, if the drive bay
is large enough to
hold a slim 2.5" drive + the bridge, you can do it, but you'll have to
edit the format.dat parameters for the drive. Likely you won't be able
to format to the exact capacity of the drive if it's over 4GB's, but
even if you squeeze 16GB out of a 20GB IDE drive, it'll be great.
I think I would *like* to keep things as close to "normal"
(original?) as possible and not let the machine devolve into
a patchwork hodge-podge. I don't use it for any *real*
work since I have other more capable (and comfortable!)
machines for that. Even the 800M (or is it 600?) drive
is big enough to let it connect to other servers here
(which can do the *real* work).
I originally hoped to put it in the kitchen as a nice
little email box (but I have been overruled on that idea :< )
I used these (scsi-ide-bridges) in my old SPARCbooks.
(see:
http://www.sunder.net/SPARCbook/#drive ) Ran beautifully, and a lot
faster than with the older 1GB/2GB scsi drives since you can use
5400/7200RPM drives.
I bought mine from dirtcheapdrives, but they no longer seem to carry
them, so you might have to google around. I was looking around for some
just now to give you a link, but most of the ones I see are for 3.5"
drives. Sorry.
These guys make'em (ADTX): http://www.adtx.com/us/conv-SCSI-IDE.html
This one probably won't work work, but I'm not sure:
http://www.directron.com/ars2000fu.html
Thanks, I'll save the pointers in case I decide to bite the
bullet.
Old Macs used SCSI. Did old apple laptops *also* use
SCSI drives? (i.e. might that be a source I can check out?)