siritzky@acf2.UUCP (Brian Siritzky) (06/17/86)
I need advice on SCSI hard disks! Now that I finally got my upgrade I can look for a good hard disk. Can people please let me know of their experiences with the various SCSI hard disks available. If you send me mail I will summarize on the net. If this has already been done can someone send me a copy. Thanks
feifer@ucla-cs.ARPA (Richard Feifer) (06/19/86)
In article <6030001@acf2.UUCP> siritzky@acf2.UUCP (Brian Siritzky) writes: >I need advice on SCSI hard disks! > >Now that I finally got my upgrade I can look for a good hard disk. >Can people please let me know of their experiences with the various I just got a Lo Down-20. It is fast and easy to set up. The only problem I had heard is that it was ugly. I couldn't imagine how it could possibly be that bad. Believe me, it is ugly as sin. But I have had no problems, and it sure makes using the Mac more fun (& $850 was not bad) -Richard
phil@sivax.UUCP (06/23/86)
> In article <6030001@acf2.UUCP> siritzky@acf2.UUCP (Brian Siritzky) writes: > >I need advice on SCSI hard disks! > > > >Now that I finally got my upgrade I can look for a good hard disk. > >Can people please let me know of their experiences with the various > > I just got a Lo Down-20. It is fast and easy to set up. The only > problem I had heard is that it was ugly. I couldn't imagine how > it could possibly be that bad. Believe me, it is ugly as > sin. > > But I have had no problems, and it sure makes using the Mac > more fun (& $850 was not bad) > > -Richard I just got a Micah AT-20 internal hard disk, it is great.....VERY FAST, quiet and the fan they put in keeps the mac very cool for nothing extra. I got mine for $1400 Phil Hunt sivax!calma
rb@ccird1.UUCP (06/24/86)
In article <6030001@acf2.UUCP> siritzky@acf2.UUCP (Brian Siritzky) writes: >I need advice on SCSI hard disks! > >Now that I finally got my upgrade I can look for a good hard disk. >Can people please let me know of their experiences with the various >SCSI hard disks available. If you send me mail I will summarize on >the net. If this has already been done can someone send me a copy. > I would be interested in hearing what sorts of results people have been having with "generic SCSI" hard disks. From what I have read and heard so far, Apple's driver seems to be able to support the protocol pretty well. Has anyone tried something not specifically designed for the Mac? Has anyone heard of an SCSI to IPI or ESDI interface? Has anyone tried the SCSI to ST-506 adapters? It might be worthwhile to post answers to the net and save some time/money for a few who can't wait for the "summary".
dwb@well.UUCP (06/28/86)
I'm currently using a Solo Systems 8/50. This is probably about as non-mac SCSI as you can get. It is a combination fixed/removable SASI controller that was made many moons ago. Until recently I was using it with a driver of my own construction. I am currently using it with a prerelease driver I got from Levco. I am in the process of writing yet another of my own drivers from it. The only real snag I've hit on so far is that the boot roms reset the SCSI interface try, to do a read from it and start over again with a reset if they don't get a response back in a "reasonable" amount of time. Problem is that "reasonable" isn't, thus you wind up with some of the older/slower drives being reset in the middle of reading. Unfortunately mine of one of the slower drives. Net result is that I can't get it to auto-boot. David -- David W. Berry dwb@well.uucp dwb.Delphi dwb.GEnie 293-0544.408.MaBell DOWN WITH FASCIST APPLE!
cjn@calmasd.CALMA.UUCP (Cheryl Nemeth) (07/03/86)
How inexpensive do "generic" SCSI drives get?