[comp.unix.aux] hard disk question

andy@zeno.mn.org (Andy Joe) (10/10/90)

I am considering purchasing either a Wren V (702 M unformatted) or
a Wren VI (766 M unformatted) hard disk for my Mac IIci.  (The disk
manufactor is now owned by Seagate)  I am planning on running AUX 2.0
on it.

The questions I have are:

	1) There are two version of these SCSI drives.  The MacWren
		version is different from the standard WREN drive because
		of different firmware on the drives.  

		Do I have to get the MacWren version of the drive for it
		to work with the Mac?  Will the MacWren drive work with other
		computers (i.e. Sun IPC sparcstation)?

	2) Who makes a power supply / cabinet / fan unit with appropiate
		cabling for this?  I know about Unimac, but would like to know
		some other sources as well.  Do they come with formatting
		software, drivers, etc?

	3) Is there any unknown problems running under AUX 2.0?  What about
		formatting the harddisk, etc.?  Is there any limits on how
		large a file systems can be?

	4) My last question deals more with AUX 2.0 and the CD-ROM player.
		I was wondering if anybody else running AUX 2.0 with a CD-ROM
		unit have had problems with the scsi timing out while reading
		the drive? There has been a couple of times where the scsi has
		timed out and recovered reading the data, and also timing out
		and aborting the read.  I was running the command: 
			man -d * | lpr


Thanxs in advance.