doherty@alliant.com (Dave Doherty) (10/08/90)
Has anyone done this before?? I want to get an external SCSI hard disk
for my Sun 3/50... The best prices for external SCSI drives seems to be
in the Mac market... Is there any reason I can't get a Mac external hard
disk... say one that has a Quantum Prodrive 80S drive in it (which is in
Sun's /etc/format.dat) and just connect it to the Sun using a SCSI cable
(50 pin to Mac type SCSI)??
QUESTIONS
1) Can this be done - any problems... extra work on the Sun side...???
2) Where can I find the cable?
3) I was looking at a Quantum, 80Mb, 18ms access time, premium external
from Third Wave Computing Inc Austin TX for $689. Why them? they include
some Mac software that I would not mind having for my Mac and the prices
seem OK - What do you think?
4) Performance issues? (It's gotta be faster than a 4Mb diskless Sun...)
Thanks [again] in advance for any help...
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