gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (11/18/87)
Recently, I purchased the same disk (CMS-80) from CDA Computer in New
Jersey. They advertised the $1219 price in the back of Nov. MacUser.
Shipping was 2% ($25), and the disk arrived in Illinois in 4 working
days. I believe the price is the best one available for an 80Mb disk,
and that you want 80Mb since you can (a) run UNIX, or (b) store ~250
color pictures, depending upon how you look at it.
CMS disk firmware is different from Apple Disk firmware, so don't use the
Apple-specific utilities on your CMS disk. A friend ofa mine broke his
CMS in this way. The CMS disk utility looks pretty good, and even
uses some color when it runs.
I installed it myself. I built a wrist grounding strap w/130K
resistor, multistrand (stripped) copper wire, and an alligator clip.
I unplugged the computer, opened the case, and grounded everything
(CMS-80, me, screwdriver) to the power supply. My CMS power cable had
both male & female connectors, and my Mac II is a male computer. I
used electrical tape to anchor the unused male connector to the disk
drive case. The disk booted when I zapped the Parameter Ram (CMS
gives you a program to do this).
Unlike any other SE/II disk made by CMS, this disk does not auto-park.
This may be in Quantum's 80Mb design, so all other 80Mb Internal disks
(Jasmine, Apple, Warp-9) currently for sale may have the same minor
flaw. CMS's Utilitiy will park the heads.
Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
{gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}