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I replaced both male and female connector on most of my compact Macs. Majority was charred. Not as bad as yours, but surely in bad conditions. You don’t need to re-crimp the male connector, just extract the pins (there’s a dovetail lock) and replace the plastic part. As for the female one...

Dear All, I am sure the topic is thoroughly covered, but honestly I couldn’t find a single reliable source of information, so I decided to start a new thread. Topic: how to download legacy software from web archives (such as the Macintosh Garden) and effectively deploy it on target 68k...

You probably saw it already, but I confirm I take the power directly from the internal SCSI connector (both 5 and 12V, regardless whether they are used or not). So, same working logic as the original Conner drive.

Just checked: there's no power to the board when the machine is in sleep mode. As I push any key and wake it up, power surges immediately.

Complete pinout here: https://tinkerdifferent.com/resources/macintosh-portable-scsi-adapter.38/ (PDF download)

I guess the culprit is now identified. Btw, the adapter I am using is constantly powering the BlueSCSI unit.

Uh, that’s interesting, thanks for sharing! Honestly I don’t remember the configuration, I might have used the patched Apple disk formatter. That could explain.

I am using no special configuration (Mac Plus) and a self made adapter (some pics in the Resources section of the forum). Virtual drive formatted using HD Toolkit and with HDT driver installed. I just did a random test, waking it up 10 times in sequence after sleep. Not a single failure, even...

I have BlueSCSI first series installed in my non back lit machine with 5 Mb of RAM. Running 7.5.3. Before I had a SCSI2SD 5.1 and the machine would systematically crash upon waking up from sleep. With the BluesSCSI things are much better, still it occasionally crashes. Can’t observe any pattern...

Honestly I don’t remember, most likely I recapped the PSU, though. The unit I have stutters a bit when I power it up, but then it just works. But I’ve got to admit I’m not using it since a while… Another likely issue is the parking position bumper of the r/w head. They tend to become sticky, due...

In the case of the one I have, the HD struggles to spin once powered up. So, it is recognized, but can’t be mounted. Once it spins, all the rest seems to be OK and the drive can be “used”. Inside there’s a custom Rodime drive. However, apart from the logic board, it seems to me very close to...

I recently refurbished a dead NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer. First time I deal with laser printers, very fascinating devices, there’s a lot to learn. Anyhow, it’s been a matter of - guess what? - recapping every single board, many small caps were totally busted. Major issue, though, was...

My experience is limited to just 2 of those custom Conner drives, both were seemingly spinning and scratching, but unable to be mounted (Portable booting from external HD). Eventually I opened them up for the sake of curiosity and… inside it was a complete jam, with the platter surface totally...

If I remember correctly, there’s a jumper in the optical drive, too

I would say “master”, “slave” is for the optical drive.

I honestly have no clue, it goes beyond my knowledge, I would need to study the specifications of the SD card standard.

Amazon, to my eye it looks totally identical to the one sold by Arduino. What is “curious“ is that the original configuration is not seen by BlueSCSI, but works with my camera. If you remove the resistor, the card is seen at start up, but it immediately crashes the system.

It’s a possibility, I put some cores around, but couldn’t notice any difference. There are still some options to investigate: plain SD to SD Extender, using full size SD. Cable I have was meant for the SCSI2SD, so micro SD to SD, I am using two adapters (full size > micro) at both ends.

I did some extra trials, I confirm the v2 works fine with HP712, and I also confirm it doesn’t work with the extender cable. Apparently, it does, but you will soon start getting “media error” and that will be it.

I have the one in the picture and it doesn’t work, unless you take out the pull up resistor. Even in that configuration, though, the installer of the OS crashes reporting read/write issues durino the initialization. Once everything is installed by plugging the card directly in the device...