WTB: 3.5" low profile SCSI hard drives 2017

Raymond · February 18, 2017, 2:07am

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to bring some old Macs back to life and am looking for old SCSI hard drives that work. Anything from 40MB to 120MB is easily usable.

Thanks!

Raymond

zmetzing · February 18, 2017, 3:43am

Might not have anything that small, but I do have some 3.5" SCSI 50pin disks in the 1-4GB range.

Raymond · February 18, 2017, 5:48am

Looks like I might be able to use 1G drives but will have to use a 3rd party formatting tool as Apple’s only supports their drives on the older OSes. Luckily I have that on an external hard drive

Lampy · February 18, 2017, 5:39pm

Damn, I just threw out lots of SCSI cables, terminators, cases possible with a few drives.

artg_dms · February 18, 2017, 6:25pm

I have an old Fujitsu mas3184np drv.
18 GB, 15k rpm, u320
more info here
http://www.disctech.com/Fujitsu-MAS-MAS3184NP-18GB-68-pin-SCSI-Hard-Drive

Not a low profile drv
Let me if you’re interested

Bill · February 19, 2017, 4:43am

Moments like that are what sometimes trigger hoarding.

artg_dms · February 19, 2017, 6:09am

Hoarding? There is no hoarding.
Just stock for future projects.

Photomancer · February 19, 2017, 6:59am

I too am not a hoarder. Neither was Fred - he just ran out of space as I do.

Raymond · February 19, 2017, 8:24am

Thanks, but won’t work for what I need.

zmetzing · February 19, 2017, 3:47pm

I’ll be able to put hands on the drives early next week and will be at DMS on Thursday night.

Raymond · February 19, 2017, 3:50pm

Thanks Zach!

Met your wife last night - @FrenchFrog - in Metaza training.

That was a fun class! You should take that training if you haven’t yet - it’s a cool way to engrave some of the smaller things you cut out on the Plasma CNC.

zmetzing · February 21, 2017, 4:39pm

I have one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/DCAS-32160-IBM-2-1GB-50-PIN-drive/dp/B0014GQNO6

Will that work?

Raymond · February 21, 2017, 5:04pm

I think so. How much did you want for it?

zmetzing · February 21, 2017, 5:14pm

1 beer

… damn Nazi-Talk taking away from the fun of this joke. Please, for the love of Bob, someone neuter Talk’s nanny mode.

LisaSelk · February 21, 2017, 5:23pm

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zmetzing · February 21, 2017, 5:27pm

I’ll wipe it tonight and either hand it to you on Thursday or put it in your box.

Shawn_Christian · February 21, 2017, 6:13pm

I know I have a hoard of old SCSI drives packed away in storage that I will soon be digging out and probably parting with. Also have lots of old MFM and RLL interface 5-1/4" hard drives from way back in the early PC days…

mrcity · February 22, 2017, 8:42pm

I attached a 1GB external SCSI drive into a Mac Plus with no fuss. The folks at vcfed saw no reason I couldn’t use an arbitrarily large drive. The System 6 OS formatted it in about 20 minutes. Are you running something older than System 6?

Raymond · February 22, 2017, 8:50pm

No. Those older Macs won’t use non-Apple drives with the built-in OS tools for partitioning and formatting. I have a 3rd party tool that I can use for that though.

zmetzing · February 22, 2017, 9:13pm

So, this thread made me drag out my DEC 3000 Model 300, the last thing I have with single-ended SCSI on it, to wipe the disks. Several hours later, it appears that the 300 will no longer get past POST due to bad RAM. I tried all the various tricks: eraser on the edge connector, flux remover, wiggling/swapping DIMMS. No luck.