WANTED: SCSI HARD DRIVE FOR POWER MAC PC 8500

[MacGuy]

Require a SCSI hard drive for 8500 Mac.

[Ed Redfern]

Hi MacGuy,

firstly a person after my own heart owning a beauty of a classic mac.

now then. you may or may not have tried this but search ebay for a 50 pin SCSI Hard drive. you'll find a good few on there trust me. unless you've installed a pci SCSI LVD board with 68 pin internals, you're most likely using the old centronics internal SCSI 50 pin type, difference being, 50 pin old type resembles IDE but wider, where as a 68 pin ultra type is a DSUB connector

I hope this helps a bit.

good luck in your search

ed

[supernova777]

Require a SCSI hard drive for 8500 Mac.

i suggest u get a pci sata card + new sata drive instead for an 8500.

http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1s2/
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_serial_ata.html

these old scsi drives are too old.

theres also an external version of the 1s2 should u choose to have your drive in an external enclosure
http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1se2/

there are other cards available of course by seritek but they are 64bit
and the 8500 only features 32bit pci slots i think?

yes this card costs $$ but it is reusable in any mac or pc with pci slots. so it will retain its value to you.. it will always be usefull. i have one of mine in a pc right now! works fine in both mac + pc.

as i mentioned to ed, our user max1zzz can make a card for you that is equivelent to these cards... but u would have to coordinate that with him and it would take some weeks for him to accomplish.