moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (01/15/86)
Seems that the SCSI port on the back of Mac+ has passed the rumor stage.
Thus, a question; given that you have a generic (hah) hard drive (let's say
20MB) and a controller card talking SCSI, and a 512K Mac+ with the SCSI port
on the back. Let's also say you have Mac Finder 5.N and Resedit. How
tough do you think it will be to initialize the hard disk with the Apple
HFS? I'm assuming one of two extremes:
1) EASY (relatively). You alter a driver table someplace in the system
file with ResEdit to the hard disk's capacity, and then use Finder 5.N's
new initialize disk option. Voila! OK, maybe somewhat rose-tinted...
2) TOUGHER. You need to write and compile a driver, install it in the
System file with ResEdit, and then initialize the disk. Maybe not so
tough if someone writes a generic driver where you need only change a
few constants to get it to work for your machine.
My naievete knows no bounds, so I'm asking people out there with more smarts
in this area for guesses/answers/hints.
"Strong men blench! Women scream! Children vomit!"
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA
UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty
<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (01/15/86)
Seems that the SCSI port on the back of Mac+ has passed the rumor stage.
Thus, a question; given that you have a generic (hah) hard drive (let's say
20MB) and a controller card talking SCSI, and a 1 Meg Mac+ with the SCSI
port on the back. Let's also say you have Mac Finder 5.N and Resedit. How
tough do you think it will be to initialize the hard disk with the Apple
HFS? I'm assuming one of two extremes:
1) EASY (relatively). You alter a driver table someplace in the system
file with ResEdit to the hard disk's capacity, and then use Finder 5.N's
new initialize disk option. Voila! OK, maybe somewhat rose-tinted...
2) TOUGHER. You need to write and compile a driver, install it in the
System file with ResEdit, and then initialize the disk. Maybe not so
tough if someone writes a generic driver where you need only change a
few constants to get it to work for your machine.
My naievete knows no bounds, so I'm asking people out there with more smarts
in this area for guesses/answers/hints.
"Strong men blench! Women scream! Children vomit!"
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA
UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty
<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) (01/17/86)
In article <2605@colossus.fluke.UUCP> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) writes: >Seems that the SCSI port on the back of Mac+ has passed the rumor stage. >Thus, a question; given that you have a generic (hah) hard drive (let's say >20MB) and a controller card talking SCSI, and a 1 Meg Mac+ with the SCSI Actually, you might not need the controller card! Many hard disks now come with SCSI built in. According to one of those random magazines that get sent to companies ( to names noone has ever heard of! ), the disk in the Apple HD20 has a built in SCSI port. I would expect Apple to come out with a version of the HD20 that uses this, and hence to have generic SCSI drivers available for the Mac+. -- Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim
spector@csd2.UUCP (David HM Spector) (01/19/86)
It won't be hard at ALL! At the expo, I saw about 5 (!!) different scsi disks ranging from 10 to 80 mb....some ith streaming tapes, et al... and best of all, all of them are available NOW. David Spector NYU/acf Systems Group ..just back from SF.
espen@well.UUCP (Peter Espen) (01/19/86)
In article <267@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes: > In article <2605@colossus.fluke.UUCP> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) writes: > >Seems that the SCSI port on the back of Mac+ has passed the rumor stage. > >Thus, a question; given that you have a generic (hah) hard drive (let's say > >20MB) and a controller card talking SCSI, and a 1 Meg Mac+ with the SCSI > > Actually, you might not need the controller card! Many hard disks now come > with SCSI built in. According to one of those random magazines that > get sent to companies ( to names noone has ever heard of! ), the disk > in the Apple HD20 has a built in SCSI port. I would expect Apple to > come out with a version of the HD20 that uses this, and hence to have > generic SCSI drivers available for the Mac+. > -- > Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim There are also a whole host of IBM Compatable drives that will work with the SCSI format. An IBM compatable hard drive at about $500 is much more attractive than a Apple HD20 at over a $1000. ` Peter Espen