hellerst@husc9.harvard.edu (Joe Hellerstein) (11/14/90)
My LaCie Cirrus 30meg external drive is dead. I think I killed it -- while trying to reduce the squealing, I tore a "flexible board" connector that connects the drive to the controller. This connector is beyond repair, and since it has a chip embedded in it and connects right to the drive head, and since I've opened the drive itself (not just the enclosure, but the drive -- I exposed the disk itself to the evils of lint and dust), I think I'm safe in pronouncing the drive dead (correct me if I'm wrong, please!) So, I now have an enclosure, power supply, fan and controller that I'm pretty sure are all fine, and was wondering what options I have in terms of replacing the disk: can I buy a raw SCSI drive as advertised in PC magazines, or an internal Mac-compatible drive, and hook it up to the remainder of my old drive? How hard is this? In addition, I am soliciting recommendations for drives in the 60-80 megabyte range, external if I'm required to do that, or internal if that's possible. I still have the LaCie driver software, SilverLining, which I like, so poor driver software needn't be a problem if the new disk is SilverLining-compatible. I'll happily mail a summary to anyone interest, or post if enough people want. Thanks a lot in advance! Joe Hellerstein (apologies if this appears twice... don't think it made it the first time)