[rescue] Tadpole Sparcbook - HDD Options

John Hudak jjhudak at gmail.com
Tue Apr 27 08:05:09 CDT 2021


FWIW, you  may want to check into general scsi to CF adapters.  Off the top
of my head, I don't recall one in a HD form factor but there may be one
that could work.  Here is a starter for some ideas
https://wiki.68kmla.org/SCSI_hard_disk_replacement_options
Good luck
J


On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 8:47 AM Richard <ejb at trick-1.net> wrote:

> Hi Folks
>
> So the tadpole arrived but when powered on it would not detect the disk on
> the
> SCSI bus (probe-scsi empty).
> Took the drive caddy apart and found a Hitachi DK226A-21 insideb&.a quick
> google tells me thats an IDE drive in a 1.2G caddy so no IDE to SCSI bridge
> thereb&.so now I know why it wouldnb t work.
>
> I am therefore now looking for a 2.5b  SCSI HDD or some alternate solution.
>
> Anyone have any ideas/suggestions/drives lurking in the bottom of a draw?
>
> Thanks in advance
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