engst@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst) (06/18/88)
Hi,
I have a Seagate 238 (30 meg, RLL) hard disk which I currently have
hooked to my Atari ST via an Adaptec 4070 (I think that's the number)
controller (which I think is a SCSI controller) and another board which
translates the SCSI signals into something the Atari can understand.
Anyway, I need to use a Macintosh SE for a senior thesis/project I'm
working on and I don't think I can deal with a floppy-only system with a
Mac any more. Macs beg for hard disks and I think the Mac can beg louder
than the Atari for this year. So what I want to do is buy a two-drive SE
and new cabling for the Adaptec controller so that I can use it with the SE
instead of the Atari for now.
I need to know if this can be done, which I think it can, but I'm not a
great hardware person. If so, I need to know what sort of cable to buy to
interface the Mac with the Adaptec board. Then, what sort of software
would I need to install this hard disk? Will Apple's Installer program
work, even though this isn't a Apple hard disk? Is there anything else I
have to be careful of when setting up a hard disk system like this? Any
advice or other information is welcome and if I recieve enough responses I
will summarize them to the net.
The reason I have this hardware lying around is that hard disks for the
Atari are as expensive as ones for the Mac, so I bought all the pieces
separately (controllers, case, power supply, hard drive) and put them
together. I would like to convert most of this stuff to the Mac so I can
have a really good 30 meg Mac without spending a fortune on another hard
drive.
Thanks a lot!
Adam
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