By tescott
Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:40 pm
The key to this install is making the internal SCSI connection. You need a 50 pin IDC cable. I soldered mine in using info I found in this forum.[/img]
taxman806 wrote:So, let me get this right... you put a hard drive in your xl? Did it work? I just got an xl and i want to put a card reader in it. But, if an HD is an option, I would like to explore that option as well. Holla!
Alistar wrote:Holy ****... am I the only one that noticed it was a 10,000 RPM drive? Thought SCSI drives only went up to 7,200. That's cool as ****. Very neat job.
An in depth tutorial would be nice, though.
LunaticBastard wrote:yo on a xl this is a plug and play mod. and with os1.2 you can partition up to 1gb sectors. you can either find a 50pin scsi hdd or use a 80pin scsi with a 80 to 50 pin adaptor. i have the 8out op too and i still was able to squeeze in a full sized drive. ive been using it like this for a long time problem free.