Re: Profile HD- What is necessary to make it work w/ the II's

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

louiss@gate.net wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
>>
>>Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:
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>>>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
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>>>:>: I have a Profile HD that I picked up. 
>>>:>You need the pretty scarce Apple II Profile card. But I would not bother 
>>>:>trying to find one.   There is space inside this
>>>: perfectly good case and power supply for TWO SCSI mechs.
>>>
>>>I wouldn't gut it either. >
>>
>>I wouldn't call it "gutting" a Profile.  More like a transplant.  ;-)
>
>I would call it "gutting".  And given that it is the ONLY hard drive that
>works with a Lisa 1 or 2/5 running the Lisa OS, it is worth some bucks.
>SCSI drives are cheap.  Bad economic advice.

You have a point.  However, the question in the subject line asks
what is necessary to make a Profile work on an Apple II.  The
best way is still to convert to SCSI.  Profile cards are rare and
the IIGS requires a Profile card with a ROM upgrade that is even
more rare.

Also, the low level formatting on a Profile fails over time and the
real frightening part of it is that it requires special hardware to
do such a format.  I believe that a great many "failed" Profiles
actually are in need of a low level re-format.  Sending the Profile
in to Sun Remarketing to get it fixed is more than it is worth.  It
is better to convert to SCSI.

It depends if you are a Lisa user or an Apple II user.  As a Lisa
user, converting seems sucks because you are losing one drive
from the pool of available used Profiles.  As an Apple II user,
however, you gain a better Profile.