hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) (10/07/87)
Hello, I just installed a MacBottom HD 144 (INTERNAL Hard disk) for my Mac II. It was very simple. Place drive in place, mount with 2 screws and plug power and SCSI cables in. The SCSI cable is kind of hard to plug in, due to it's position in the box. I had to take out the tray holding the floppy drives to connect the cable. This required removing 4 screws, plugging in the cables, then putting the screws back. The drive MUST be set to SCSI unit 0 (meaning-leave the jumper out!) or devices on the external SCSI bus will not be seen. PCPC says this is an Apple 'feature' allowing a user to 'turn off' the external bus for debugging a flakey drive. I will buy that. Anyway I plugged it in, and it booted right up. I ran Disktimer II on it and the numbers were 40/42/12. Jasmine 80, for comparison was 52/59/19. The drive comes with a 1:1 interleave factor, so is very fast. Phil Hunt