prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg) (04/12/89)
I started this by asking about AE's new hard drive. > Subject: Re: AE's (vaporware) Hard Drive, any info. out there? > > Apple II drives don't have to be as expensive as you think. I bought > a 45 Meg drive from HDI for $569. They sell 20 Meg drives for $426. > They're really for Macs, but they work fine with Apple IIs. You just > need to add a SCSI card. > When you total up actual costs, drives for an Apple aren't that much > more expensive than drives for an IBM. > > Alan H. Stein Does anyone out there know what the disadvantages and advantages of using a SCSI card for a hard drive controller? (ie. is there ram resident s/w available so my //gs doesn't have to slow down to talk to it? does it prevent the use of any "neat features" everybody uses on their hard drives? is it slower? etc.) +---------------------------------------------------------+ | The Apple //'s will live forever!! | | Phil Lindberg snail mail: 13845 S.E. 131 ST | | INET: prl3546@tahoma.UUCP Renton, WA 98056 | | UUCP: ..!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!prl3546 | | Disclaimer: I don't speak for my employer (and I not | | sure they even know I exist....) | +---------------------------------------------------------+
bird@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Walters) (04/17/89)
From article <370@tahoma.UUCP>, by prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg): > Does anyone out there know what the disadvantages and advantages > of using a SCSI card for a hard drive controller? (ie. is there > ram resident s/w available so my //gs doesn't have to slow down > to talk to it? Ohio Kache is going to announce a SCSI piggyback card for their KACH card at Applefest. If you had a hard disk, a Kache card with the SCSI interface, your data intensive programs would act a lot like the data were resident in RAM. -- Joe Walters att!ihlpf!bird IHP 1F-240 (312) 416-5356