Just randomly stumbled across your video, interesting. Not sure if you knew already, but for some reason Maxtor made the Molex connector completely upside down on their drives, this was the design they used, so as you showed in the video adapters like that will not work. Something else is this is a SCSI drive, it requires a command from the controller to spin up as that is what the controller will request the drive to do, simply applying power to the drive will not spin it up most of the time on SCSI drives unless the jumper settings are changed.
Thanks for watching. I'm used to SCSI weirdness so I did check the various jumper settings and they appeared correctly configured for auto spin, but it still didn't do anything. I did try it previously on a controller and it still just sat inert (which is why it was in the junk drawer in the first place). I think it may have had the power reversed at some point or something because one of the chips on the board got really hot when plugged in. But if you watched to the end, even if it did spin, the deteriorating magnets would likely have killed it in short order.
Just randomly stumbled across your video, interesting. Not sure if you knew already, but for some reason Maxtor made the Molex connector completely upside down on their drives, this was the design they used, so as you showed in the video adapters like that will not work. Something else is this is a SCSI drive, it requires a command from the controller to spin up as that is what the controller will request the drive to do, simply applying power to the drive will not spin it up most of the time on SCSI drives unless the jumper settings are changed.
Thanks for watching. I'm used to SCSI weirdness so I did check the various jumper settings and they appeared correctly configured for auto spin, but it still didn't do anything. I did try it previously on a controller and it still just sat inert (which is why it was in the junk drawer in the first place). I think it may have had the power reversed at some point or something because one of the chips on the board got really hot when plugged in. But if you watched to the end, even if it did spin, the deteriorating magnets would likely have killed it in short order.