[rescue] need a high cap 50 pin Cheetah

[Peter Corlett]

Kevin <kevin at mpcf.com> wrote:
> Anyone know where i might be able to find a high capacity , 50 pin,
> Cheetah? I'd prefer 18 gigs or up (don't remember the max they made in 50
> pin) but i'll take 9 gigs if all else fails. Ebay seems to only have slow
> or small drives in 50 pin.

Get a 50-to-SCA adaptor and use a modern drive. I got one from eBay for
about a tenner, and it worked fine. As for performance, the limiting factor
was the 10MB/s SCSI bus, not the adaptor or drive when I used a 9GB 7200RPM
Seagate.

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