Re: Harddrive upgrade

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>I'm hoping to upgrade my 20Meg harddrive to something (anything) with
>greater capacity.  I would like to simply remove the existing mechanism
>from the case and install a new one, saving me the cost of a new power
>supply etc.  As I understand it, this is a simple process (looks simple

Yep, good idea.  And it is indeed a fairly simple process.

>to me anyway).  My current drive is a CMS20 which uses a Seagate
>mechanism.  I am assuming I can replace that with another Seagate as the
>simplest approach.  What other options should I explore?  I saw an ad

If you want Seagate, get their newer 3.5" series.  Although I would 
recommend staying away from Seagate, unless you are getting their
higher capacity drives ( like 200mb and up ).  

>for some MFM mechanisms but I don't know if those would be compatible.
>Anyone out there care to educate me?  Anyone out there happen to have
>a used mechanism for sale??

MFM is an encoding scheme.  Most if not all drives these days use RLL.  
Check in those forsale groups, people always have extra mechanisms for
sale.  Usually under $1/mb now days ( for used/good condition ones ).

Just be sure it's a SCSI drive.  Then all you have to do is pop the old
drive out.  Then stick the new drive in.  Connect the power cable, SCSI
cable, and SCSI ID cable/jumper.  The mountings are all standarized, so
it's a pop out and snap in installation.


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frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com