Can you tell me of any problems you ran into when you hooked up a SCSI Apple hard disk to a IBM-PC SCSI cable? does the cable fit"correctly" or do I need to flip it, and the power demands for the mac, did you run it to a separate p.s. or did you splice into the PC power supply? and how did the BIOS detect this Apple hard drive? courious.

I did this once with an old Adaptec SCSI host without a BIOS... you had to load a DOS driver, involving an 80 MB Quantum QuietDrive I "borrowed" from a Mac LC III. It worked fine; it had to be repartitioned and all that crap, but worked fine after that. I used the cable (wider than it was long) from the Mac. Power supply was the standard kind you'd find on just about any drive.

Hey I have 3 LC's!!! cool but mine are 40 mb's each, I'm not too familar with scsi I was unaware that those cards used drivers intead of the bios. ......but tell me this I have a 1984 IBM 5170 with a old scsi card but it has TWO , flat ribbions going to the hard disk, and the bios detects the drives, what do you call these???? it's not ide, can't be. I thought it was SCSI cause, well if its not IDE then what elese could it be!

Calm down... use one punctuation mark at a time. Most (i.e. all except a couple) SCSI cards have an onboard BIOS, so you can have the software for disk management always available, and the drives can be booted. This particular SCSI card just did not have any kind of onboard BIOS... not the best way to do things, if you ask me. Aaaaanyway, there are many other interfaces than IDE or SCSI. Such as MFM, RLL, and ESDI. It's probably one of those 3.

just fitted a mac 800mb drive to my nephews P100 to replace a dead 1.2gb all i needed to do was fit it, detect it in bios and fdisk it then install 95 for him no problems at all power lead and ide lead just went in as standard Woof