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)