samt@pro-europa.cts.com (Sam Theis) (04/08/90)
In-Reply-To: message from max@lgc.com >Does anybody have any idea of whether I can interface a standard Maxtor SCSI >drive (760M) to the Apple version of SCSI? What issues will I face? How >will I low-level format the drive? Will I be able to use the entire disk? >As one partition or many? Any help would be appreciated? >P.S. Who makes SCSI boards besides Apple and how do they compare? ProDOS and GS/OS when using the ProDOS FST is limited to 32MB "volumes", so that 760MB disk will have to be partitioned into 20+ "partitions". I think that the supported limit is more like 10 partitions. There might be hope if Apple releases System Disk 6.0 with a HFS FST soon. UUCP: crash!pro-europa!samt ARPA: crash!pro-europa!samt@nosc.mil INET: samt@pro-europa.cts.com
jefft@gnh-applesauce.cts.com (Jeff Tarr Jr.) (04/09/90)
I believe you can connect the Mactor drive to Apple's SCSI card with no
problem. You'll have to use something to partition that down, obviosily, but I
think that the drive would work fine, as the limit on GSOS is 1024 megs...
To format it you'd have to use a 16-bit formatter, as Prodos 8 only recgonizes
64 megs per slot. Advanced Disk Utility may be your best bet.
--Jeff
Jeff Tarr Jr.. Sysop of the AppleSauce BBS [212] 721-4122...
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* Sent by AppleSauce at Sun, 8 Apr 90 09:46:17dbcrawford@pro-tcc.cts.com (Doug Crawford) (04/09/90)
In-Reply-To: message from max@lgc.com
SCSI is as SCSI does..You should use either an APPLE` scsi card or a CMS
scsi card, or Ohio Cache system makes a decent card too..All you need is a
SCSI utility program , and be able to define the drives parameters to volume
of 32 megs or less (the ole' prodos volume size bit)..Should be a piece of
cake..
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