Q: Power Macintosh 7600/120 SCSI drive
Hello all! I have a super irritating issue at the moment with one of my older computers. I have a Power Macintosh 7600/120 that uses SCSI as it's main HDD interface. My last SCSI drive has failed and I'm unable to find cheep drives that fit the smaller SCSI connector. Is it possible to adapt the ribbon cable to accept IDE? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Posted on Jan 31, 2014 7:36 AM
If you want to connect a bootable IDE hard drive, you'll need to install a Mac-compatible (PC versions won't work) Ultra ATA-66 or ATA-100 PCI controller card, such as this Sonnet card listed at ebay. Make sure that your 7600 supports the card. You can also seach the web for the (discontinued) Acard AEC-6260M Ultra ATA-66 controller card. I just checked ebay for 50-pin SCSI hard drives and can't believe what they're selling for, compared to what I paid for comparably-sized drives 10 years ago. That's what scarcity does, even when the demand is low. There was an ebay seller (Tony Lafrenz) who specialized in used SCSI hard drives, but time and technology's evolution may have retired his ebay store by now. Keep in mind that anything you find will likely be used and as old, if not older, than your failed drive. This could limit the service life that you might hope to get from a used drive.
Posted on Feb 1, 2014 1:15 AM