Re: WTB SCSI HD

[nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)]

shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) wrote:
>In article <22JUL199721093869@vax2.concordia.ca>,
>Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>>In article "Dan Yertzell" <Dan-Yertzell@worldnet.att.net> writes...
>>
>>>Still looking for a SCSI hard drive, case & ps and cable for a //gs.  Don't
>>>suggest Alltech - I've called them twice.  Both times the woman who answers
>>>the phone asks for my name and number and says someone will call me back.
>>>One week later no one has.  Interesting way to do business - turning away
>>>customers ready to buy.

Try JDR Microdevices (http://www.jdr.com/).  Don't say "//gs," though.
Just say you want an SCSI case.

>>
>>    If you already have a SCSI interface card installed (i.e. RamFAST,
>>Apple HS or Rev C) there is no reason you need to shop Apple II vendors
>>to find a SCSI hardrive. SCSI is SCSI, there is no such thing as an
>>Apple II-specific SCSI hardrive. In fact, quite often you'll be paying
>>more for a drive from such a vendor than you would elsewhere (Scantron
>>Quality Computers is a perfect example of paying more than you should
>>for a so-called "Apple II hardrive").
>
>Yep, I'd recommend trying groups like comp.sys.mac.wanted and misc.forsale.
>computers.storage. Drives under 1 gb, particularly under 500 mb, are going 
>mighty cheap in these days of $100/gb hard disks. No one sells new drives
>under a gig any more and that would be utter overkill on a IIgs even if it
>worked. I moved up from a 105 mb to a 230 mb on mine only because I had the
>drive on hand and it had the Apple ROM while the 105 did not. That's a handy
>feature since Apple's formatter for the Mac will work on it. I attribute my
>lack of HFS problems on my IIgs' hard disk in part to being formatted and
>partitioned on a Mac. And running Norton on it certainly doesn't hurt. That's
>with a 200 mb HFS volume and a 30 mb ProDOS volume. But I digress. Mitch is
>right, people who cater to Apple II users try to gouge them pretty hard on
>SCSI hard disks.
>-- 
>Randy Shackelford                                 
>shack@frii.com                                    

Randy, just a comment.  _Any_ SCSI drive can by formatted _on the GS_ by
the Advanced Disk Utilities (ADU) to work on the Mac.  In the resource fork
of ADU, there is Apple's official Mac SCSI HD driver.  ADU scans to make
sure it finds a drive with an Apple ROM before putting the Mac driver on
it.  However, someone wrote a program (forgot the name, something like
SysEx) that extracts the ADU driver and saves it in the *:System:Drivers
folder.  If this driver is in this folder, ADU will be able to install it
in HFS partitions _even if the HD is not an Apple_!  Drives formatted in
this way can be seen on the Mac.

-Scott G.