unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown User) (12/27/90)
This is a post I posted locally on my system, but then thought I might
be able to get a bunch of help from you guys out there. I mention a few stores
and such that are only in the Bay Area, but you can just ignore that..
I'll probably add on a few more questions to the end of the quoted
part that are GS specific...
Here goes:
I got a 40 meg hard drive for $149 at Fry's today and it's just
the mechanism (I knew that before I bought it). {Another thing added
to the original post.. they also had a new, in-box //e for sale for $49! I was
amazed, it was grabbed by someone else IMMEDIATELY. And I heard other people
talking about it too! Even though it's such a great deal, I'm amazed a
whole bunch of people were so interested in a SUPPOSEDLY "out of date,
underpowered" computer}
Looking at it from the back, there's three sets of pins..
The middle set is obviously where the drive hooks up...But it's
a rectangular set of pins.. Does a 'regular' SCSI cable go from this
rectangular set of pins (with two little plastic lever things to hold
the cable on when you connect it, I think) to a 25 pin connector?
To the left of the main set of pins, there's a set of 8
pins with a molex connector on one pair right now.. Is that to set
the SCSI id number?!
To the right of the main set of pins is a little plastic "box"
with four wide cylindrical pins sticking up out of the open end of
the box..
I would presume this is the power supply. Am I correct?
Now for my main questions:
Is there any way I can power this thing FROM MY COMPUTER? My
computer will only have two cards in it, and it seems that if a computer can
give enough power to turn a floppy drive, it should be able to turn a
hard drive...
IF not, where can I get a cheap case & power supply? I was thinking
Halted or Haltek.. How much power do I need? There's like --no-- document-
ation with this thing (except the little info page that says 0 hard, soft,
or seek errors..
How much will the case & power supply cost?
thanks for your info.. I wanna get this thing going ASAP.
This is the end of the post I posted locally.
Now I want to know where I can get a program that will do
interleaving on the DMA SCSI card. It seems to me that nobody ever really
found a program that would do this, but now I'm gonna try to harp about it
until I get a definite answer (heh)...since I'm a member of the hard drive
owning community now (FINALLY).
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