I have not pulled the battery from the unit to look at the connection. I hope there is a chance the battery people on El Toro can rebuild the battery, and maybe find a connector to build a second one.
There is a single ended connector on the back, so it will be possible to run these w/o any disk caddys. It will be more cool to have a disk carrier, and hopefully a scsi to CF converter that will mate up with whatever connector this thing took on a scsi disk.
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| Side of 3GX |
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| Bootup Screen on 3GX |
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| Power Supply detail. One came with each unit 12vdc, center pin hot |
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| Photo from auction |
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| Battery is shot, but holds up the system for maybe 10 seconds after power is pulled |
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| Power supply photo from auction. |
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| 3000xt from auction |
http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD
ReplyDeleteThe scsi2sd powerbook adapter there fits in my sparcbook 3gx .. I haven't gotten around to installing anything on it though. the prom can prob it and get the drive name and such though... so it looks promising.
It should be as fast as a real disk as well I think not to mention much much larger... Also from what I understand the aztechmonster CF adapter on ebay does not work in sparcbooks.
Its a bit expensive but... not much other option for an easy to use disk converter. The CF adapters all seem to require very specific types of CF cards.
Bleh... lost my comment logging in so here goes again.
ReplyDeleteSCSI2SD doesn't currently work with SD cards that have large erase blocks (so anything at all above 8GB or so) And for the smaller cards you probably want to get a fast sandisk card as others likely have too high latency and will cause timouts on the scsi controller if the disk is read/write.
Anyway I still want to get a look at those 128MB ram modules! :) I should know more about the SCSI2SD progress in a week or two I'm hoping to have a 32-64Gb SD Card in mine sooner or later.
Did you get any update on SCSI2SD? I'd be curious to hear. Just was perusing comments, they don't come to a place I see them unless I go on the hunt.
DeleteWas just perusing myself... yes the powerbook SCSI2SD does work in my 3TX. Of course I have to use the original caddy and adapter. But the SCSI2SD can fully replace the original drive... I have a 32GB SD card in mine its quite spacious.
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