BREZ@BCVMS.BITNET (01/11/90)
I'd like to know how many people have SCSI (non Apple SCSI) drives for their //GS. I'm interested in adding a hard drive, but don't want to spend all the money for an Apple drive. Does anyone have any great ideas?? Third party vendors?? What's the bottom line?? Please send your comments to me, and I'll post a summary of the information. Thanks in advance. Send answers to: BREZ@BCVMS.bitnet
prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg) (01/13/90)
BREZ@BCVMS.BITNET: > I'd like to know how many people have SCSI (non Apple SCSI) drives > for their //GS. I'm interested in adding a hard drive, but don't > want to spend all the money for an Apple drive. Does anyone have > any great ideas?? Third party vendors?? What's the bottom line?? > > Please send your comments to me, and I'll post a summary of the > information. Thanks in advance. I have a "home brew" SCSI hard drive that I assembled myself. It is a Seagate ST271N (65meg.) inside a Tulin case/power supply and is connected to an Apple SCSI I/O card. It works great, is fast, and since it has an Apple SCSI card, I'm not worried about an updates Apple does to the Operating System (GS/OS and/or ProDOS) since they will stay compatable with themselves. > Send answers to: BREZ@BCVMS.bitnet I don't have access to bitnet. Have fun: Phil +--------------------------------------------------------------+ |If my IIgs 'll just hold out for a few more months 'til GS+...| | Phil Lindberg snail mail: 13845 S.E. 131 ST | | UUCP: ..!uunet!bcstec!tahoma!prl3546 Renton, WA 98056 | | Disclaimer: I don't speak for my employer (and I not | | sure they even know I exist....) | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
Espo@cup.portal.com (STEVEN MICHAEL ESPOSITO) (01/20/90)
HI I asked a similar question about two weeks ago and got one reply. Being in guam this did not help matters any. Anyways get the chinook utilities from a2 central or any other mail order house for abot 30 bucks.this software will let you set the inter- leave of your drive,do a low level format ,test for bad blocks and partiton your drive.It is also the only program that you can get that will let you lock out the bad blocks it finds.at least as far as i know. when i looked around for a drive i used the following criteria. i had a chinook external 40 meg scsi drive with apples scsi card i wanted to buy another external 80 meg scsi card.a2 central started selling kits to make your own 80 meg drive. i priced their kit and it comes to 729.00 without the scsi card.with thier case you can put two dives if you want.well i looked at hard drives international and they wanted 599.00 for a 80 meg seagate drive without the scsi card.one year warratny. i tried several times to get these guys and all i could do was get placed on hold for about 20 minutes each time i called.let me tell tou that this pisses me off because phone call from guam are not cheap.also i figured if i couldn't even get through to order the drive how coild i get through for tech support.so then i looked at ehman eng. who make drives for the mac.they wanted 649.00 for a 80 meg seagate with a 2 year limited warranty.i ordered it and nine days later it was here.i daisy chained it to my chinook and reformated it with the chinook utilites and it works like a champ.i can also reccomened the chinook drives.they come with appls scsi card included but they are expensive when compared to the mac drives. i prefer them over the internal hardrives like the vulcans because you can daisy chain them. well thats my two cents worth. i wish some of the more vocal members of this news group would have taken the time to help me instead of arguing about things like why apple is part of the illumina conspiarcy. ps if you need any more help you can email at : espo@cup.portal.com