Re: Just bursting to share

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

:>: The problem is that Will appears to be a long time GS user.
:>: The longer you use the IIGS, the more your storage needs
:>: grow.  20MB is most likely not going to be enough for him.
:>
:>Hmm I've had a IIgs for twelve years. I expect the 230 mb hard disk on it
:>to never get full. The 30 mb ProDOS volume is more or less full but the
:>200 mb HFS volume has about 70 mb on it.

: That's still a far cry from 20MB so on this point, we
: are more or less on agreement: for longtime IIGS
: users, 20MB is not enough (and neither is 40MB).

I made do with a 30 mb for years. That was a bit smallish so in went a 105
mb. I replaced that drive with the 230 mainly because it has an Apple ROM
and it was just lying around. I got it formatted with HD SC setup so that
the HFS volume will show up on a Mac for file maintenance every so often.

: I actually consider the 500-600MB content of my
: IIGS lightweight.  On my Windows PC, I have
: 12GBs of space and several GBs of that are filled
: up.

Yepper. I'm accumulating a stack of homemade CDs chock full of Quicktimes.
Between homemade QTs ranging from 15 to 70 mb a pop plus downloading QTs off
the web, we're talking mondo space.

: Before, I had about 230MB spread across the
: SCSI chain over several drives.  I found myself
: having to delete files left and right and using
: floppy disks and later Zip disks.  Now I have
: everything centralized on the IIGS hard drive.

I guess I go along with the distributed computing paradigm. My Quadra 700
is a dedicated CD burner with 2 gigs of scratch disk space plus a CD drive
and Cd recorder attached. I have an SE/30 dedicated to file sharing with
a pair of 2 gig drives and Appleshare 3.0. Then there's my do everything
box, the Q840av with a gig internal and a 2 gig and MO externals.

:>All the newer gig+ hard disks I've ever tried such as a 2 gig Quantum Atlas
:>and 2 gig Seagate Barracuda make my IIgs act as if nothing is on the bus.
:>As if putting 7200 RPM AV rated drives on an Apple II isn't the epitome of 
:>overkill. My 230 mb magneto optical drive does the same thing.

: Are you sure it isn't a termination problem?  My
: 1GB drive is an IBM brand SCSI-II unit and it
: works fine.  The Iomega Jazz drive, also 1GB,
: can also function with the Apple II High Speed
: SCSI card.

Most of the drives are in APS enclosures, which have digital active 
termination. That's a sure fire cure for termination problems, so I'm
quite confident that there's no problem there. The internal Barracuda in
my Q700 is missing terminator blocks and won't boot unless there's an
external device attached, and DAterm makes it work pretty as you please.
My 230 hard disk on the IIgs has DAterm too. But nonetheless, I've tried
a Seagate Elite 2, a Barracuda, a Quantum Atlas, and Olympus 230 mb MO
with zero success.
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