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Re: Which external scsi cdrom for an A3000
« on: May 26, 2004, 09:36:01 PM »
SCSI 1 is out of the back of the  A3000 on an Apple style 25 pin D plug, and inside it's on a  standard SCSI 1 low-density 50 pin ribbon-type plug on the MB.  

External SCSI 1 boxes come in both high and low density Centronix connector types, it's easier to find 25 pin D to low-density Centronix leads as they're standard Apple fare!

If you have a mix of 1 and 2 devices it should work, but will end up looking messy :-(

If your A3000 has a harddisk already you may need to remove the termintors on the motherboard before an external drive can be used ... not hard to do, but hard to undo ...

And I've got a 4x reader and 8x writer for mine, the leads cost more than the drives :lol:
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Re: Which external scsi cdrom for an A3000
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2004, 11:36:57 PM »
Yeah, I'm not impressed with serial-ATA so far :?

Seems to be plenty of SCSI leads etc on ebay, the cost of my drives is £0 BTW - thats why the leads were more expensive ;-)

I'm looking for an accellerator with fast/wide now as I've just bagged a couple of ex-raid disks with cables - they're a wee bit bigger than my 1Gb drive, lol.  Also trying to wangle a DDS3 Dat drive, but I can't think of a use for it :-P
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