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For me, the frustration isn't that the BlueSCSI might fail, since that's true of anything. Not even that there may be design compromises, because that's true of many of thew Macs they go in anyway, it's that the criticisms don't really tell us anything helpful, or even have much detail. Things...

I'm not sure whether to leave it on Mac OS 9, or go back to 8.1, which I think has everything I need in it, and is age appropriate for this system anyway. But I need to do a clean install, since while it's running well, it is very badly cluttered with previous owner materials, which are about as...

I hadn't even seen one of these since 1999 when I set one up for a senior faculty manager, so spotting this one on eBay, 'tested' but with no HD, for $40 seemed worth a go - if nothing else, I have a couple of spare IDE drives, and would probably fit an IDE-CF replacement anyway if the computer...

I can't match those accomplishments, but I can admire a fine computer when I see one!! Welcome, fellow newbie!

That wouldn't be an issue for me, and I think even if it was, the ability to hot-swap microSD cards while its running would encourage me to re-site my Mac! In almost every case, my BlueSCSI devices will be internal, so that hot-swap capability, which I really like the sound of, won't actually...

Very much appreciated, thanks! That place seems a bit prone to tantrums, and I can't say I really miss that! It must be said that the degree to which this kind of techno-babble erupts there is rather amusing in a way, because at the end of the day what helps users are explanations about what...

Ha!!! Well, I don't like change, but change is good!

Thank you for responding! The complaint, as far as I am able to tell, is: 1- BlueSCI is not capable of sustaining the current on the Mac's SCSI bus, and will eventually (or sooner) burn out. 2- That SCSI termination is not correctly implemented. I have no idea what this actually means because...

It does have a rather more relaxed feel than MLA! And it seems a lot of helpful people too!

Ah, that does help. I know there's controversy of sorts - at least in the minds of some people - about BlueSCSI products, but it seems pretty hazy what the issues are - at least in a practical sense for the user. I created an HDA image on a microSD card and installed 7.1 on it successfully on...

This isn't a problem, but a more philosophical question I guess. I have a BlueSCSI v2 for powerbooks (thanks @Androda), and I plan to use it for my 170 - a favorite of mine, which I use frequently. Problem is, the 170 works perfectly as it is, and I've never used a BlueSCSI v2 before, and not...

Or possibly not! I joined a couple of weeks back, just for somewhere different, and I see a lot of familiar names from 68kmla and elsewhere. I'm an escapee from there, and have a small collection of Macs - mostly 68k models, but some G3 and G4, and mostly PowerBooks. I'm not a collector so...