stocker@Neon.Stanford.EDU (William Stocker) (12/12/90)
I'd like to get a new, higher capacity internal hard disk for may Mac IIci. Is it possible to have both the new and the old drives hooked up at the same time so I can transfer the data from my old drive before I sell it? Or am I going to have to buy 100 floppies? If possible, how hard is the procedure (ie what are my chances of frying my computer)? I'm fairly mechanically inclined; installing more RAM was child's play... Any help would be greatly appreciated. --Will
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (12/13/90)
In article <1990Dec11.203219.3611@Neon.Stanford.EDU> stocker@Neon.Stanford.EDU (William Stocker) writes: >I'd like to get a new, higher capacity internal hard disk for may Mac IIci. >Is it possible to have both the new and the old drives hooked up at the same >time so I can transfer the data from my old drive before I sell it? Or am >I going to have to buy 100 floppies? If possible, how hard is the procedure >(ie what are my chances of frying my computer)? I'm fairly mechanically >inclined; installing more RAM was child's play... You need a power supply Y Cable, and a 3-connector 50-pin ribbon cable. The power supply Y can be found anywhere. Then you make sure the SCSI IDs are differnt (may need a jumper or two for this), connect the two drives and the mac to the 3-connector ribbon cable (where the 2-connector one is now), connect the power up, and things should work fine, except your disk is probably not in a particularly stable (mechanically) position. What I did when I wanted to connect two internal drives together, though, is I used an external drive enclosure, took the drive that was in there out, put the new internal in there, and transferred the info. Then I put the original drive back. Obviously, this is only an option if you have an external drive around. I don't know what the power budget of the Mac IIci is-- I know the IIci can take some of the big (power hungry) Wrens inside, so as long as neither drive is one of those, you are probably safe. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.
Mike.Culver@f31.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Culver) (01/07/91)
It's easy to copy from one disk to another!. Simply make certain that the
"new" drive has a different SCSI address than the "old" one. That's
generally done by setting jumpers. If you're lucky, the docs with the
drive describe how to do this.
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