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Author here. Admittedly I didn't explore this avenue very deeply. I was more focused on accomplishing this with parts I had on hand.

A quick search yielded this result, which does confirm it's absolutely possible to adapt the drive: https://vintagemacmuseum.com/reading-powerbook-2-5-scsi-hard...

(My way might be more fun. Ha.)

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Hell, I wrote a FUSE implementation of HFS a while back. HFS (and to a lesser extent HFS+) is quite well documented. Current versions of MacOS can still do HFS+ (but not HFS) natively.

Fun for the win! I suspect most of the other suggestions, even if possible, wouldn't have generated this level of interest. Well done on your Rube Goldberg method!

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