macey@praxis.co.uk (Ian Macey) (01/24/89)
I currently own an IBM-PC clone with two 360k 5.25 inch floppies and I want to aquire a hard disk of some kind. It seems the choice is between hard cards and hard disks. Can anyone offer me any advice on which to go for? What are the relative merits of these two devices? I should like to be able to keep both floppies, plus I also have a 3.5 inch external drive which I'd like to be able to link to my PC at a later date - Does this effect my choice? Thanks, Ian. |\\\X\\|\ | Ian Macey Bath, England. (macey@praxis.co.uk) |\\X\\\|\\ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |\X\\\\|\\\| " there are never no bugs, only bugs you haven't found "
marty@homxc.ATT.COM (M.B.BRILLIANT) (01/26/89)
In article <3664@newton.praxis.co.uk>, macey@praxis.co.uk (Ian Macey) writes: > I currently own an IBM-PC clone with two 360k 5.25 inch floppies and > I want to aquire a hard disk of some kind. It seems the choice is > between hard cards and hard disks. > > Can anyone offer me any advice on which to go for? What are the > relative merits of these two devices? From the point of view of one naive user, it depends mainly on whether you will run out of drive space or card space first. It may also depend on whether you already have hard-drive controller hardware. On an AT&T PC-6300 system with two floppies and no more drive slots, a Flashcard 30 (which carries a Seagate hard disk and controller hardware) ran perfectly. The only glitch was that I had to read the hardware manual for the computer mainboard and set the dip switches to tell it the drive was "external." M. B. Brilliant Marty AT&T-BL HO 3D-520 (201) 949-1858 Home (201) 946-8147 Holmdel, NJ 07733 att!homxc!marty Disclaimer: Opinions stated herein are mine unless and until my employer explicitly claims them; then I lose all rights to them.