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Biggest 2.5" SCSI drive - was: Re: Old Macs as light desktops? [message #36172] Thu, 07 February 2013 19:23
Scott Holder is currently offline  Scott Holder
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On 2/27/2010 7:54 PM, Scott Holder wrote:
> On 2/27/2010 7:37 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:

>> --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Austin Leeds<firepowerforfreedom@gmail.com> wrote:

>> <clip>

>>> Anybody know what's the coolest stuff these things can do?

>> Run Linux? ;)

>>

>> Well the answer for the Duo 230 is not much. It's slow, has a

>> monochrome, 640x480 screen, a small hard drive and little RAM. 500

>> meg was the largest 2.5" SCSI hard drive, huge for a Mac of that

>> vintage, more likely the Duo has somewhere around 40 meg. There's

>> been some bigger SCSI drives for PowerBooks, but they're IDE drives

>> with a very small SCSI to IDE bridge attached, they don't fit all

>> PowerBooks due to the extra length.

>

> Hmm, I have a Powerbook Duo 280c with a 1 gig 2.5" SCSI drive. I'll

> see if I can dig it out of my stuff and get more info on it.

>

> Scott

>


Well, it only took me a couple or three years to make good on this, and
I still haven't found the 1gig drive I think I had. But, I did find the
750mb SCSI drive.

It's Apple-branded IBM DVAS-2810. It looks to be native SCSI and doesn't
have any sort of visible IDE adapter. The footprint matches some other
definitely-SCSI drives I have. Googling seems to indicate it's SCVSI as
well.

Fits fine in the Powerbook Duos I still have and seems to be functional,
though I'm somewhat suspicious of my Duos working properly at the moment.

http://i48.tinypic.com/30mpvm8.png

Now I'll have to see if I can dig up the 1gb!

Scott

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