dplatt@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Dave Platt) (10/09/87)
I'm also looking around for a drive for a Mac II. Yesterday, I called Warp Nine Engineering to ask about their Macintosh II 50 and 80 internal hard drives, which their ad in a recent MacWorld states "use the same quantum drive as the original Mac II". Their tech-support person confirmed this. I asked "Well, what's the difference between the Apple 40-meg internal drive and the Macintosh II 50, then?" He turned away and spoke to a fellow employee, and then responded "None - it's 50 megs unformatted, and when you format the drive, it comes down to 44-45 megs." This strikes me as a bit strange... the Apple version of this drive is, I believe, called a "40-meg" drive, and the Warp Nine is called a 50, and yet the two are apparently identical (he confirmed that the Apple disk utilities can be used to format and test the Warp Nine version). Sounds as if Warp Nine may be playing an apples-and-oranges game here. If so, BLEAH! I hope I'm mistaken about my conclusions here... are there any netreaders "on the inside" at Warp Nine who can confirm or deny what I was told?