mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) (02/17/91)
I currently have an 030 Cube, and am waiting (and waiting and waiting) for my 040 board. What I am wondering is this: Will my internal Maxtor hard drive still work inside the cube? I assume, that since this is the same drive that NeXT ships with their 660meg cubes, that the upgrade will provide the means. Who out there has upgraded your 030 Cube, and kept the hard drive inside? The reason I'm asking this is because of all the fuss about SCSI2 --> SCSI1 Cables. Thanks, MikeC -- _________________________________________________________ Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland mikec@wam.umd.edu
dml@esl.com (Denis Lynch) (02/26/91)
In article <1991Feb16.215820.28200@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes:
I currently have an 030 Cube, and am waiting (and waiting and waiting)
for my 040 board.
All good things come to those who wait. Does that make the things
better because you waited longer? In any case, hope your board comes
soon. *I* sure don't want to have to go back to the '030!
What I am wondering is this: Will my internal
Maxtor hard drive still work inside the cube? I assume, that since
this is the same drive that NeXT ships with their 660meg cubes, that
the upgrade will provide the means.
We've upgraded a bunch of machines, and the internal drives all work fine.
The question is pretty reasonable, since SCSI I & II are different in more
than cable format. But I believe that SCSI II controllers can talk to
SCSI I devices with no trouble. All you need to do is get the electrons to
the right place, and the '040 board's internal SCSI connector is compatible
with the '030 board's connector.
--Deniscitdem@UAVAX0.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU (05/13/91)
040 upgrade comes with a new cable for HD. BTW, all folks with 660MB NeXT installed HD's should double check space available. My 660 was actually a HP 635MB HD until I griped. (651MB if SR2.1 installed via BuildDisk.) Here's my stats: bash$ df Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 653614 268797 319455 46% / (Oops, make "651" above "653" instead. So much for my memory.) D. McCollam