Re: Hard Cards for the GS?

[unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <Sep15.171812.41277@yuma.acns.colostate.edu>,
James Darrel Riddle <jr251693@LANCE.ColoState.Edu> wrote:
>	I've heard that hard cards are a possibility for the GS.
>	Any one heard anything about these things?? 
>	     (ie. reliability,requirements, cost, sizes??)
>         Any help on this subject would e greatly appreciated.
>	 P.S.  How about availability?

	You mean a card that has a hard drive on it, right?

	The lastest instance of these is being sold now, and has been selling
since at least Apple Expo West.  I don't know the official name of the product
but the company is Parson Engineering.. Bill Heineman wrote the drivers for 
the card.

	The card uses an IDE mechanism and they claim it's between the
speed of the Apple DMA card and the RamFAST card.

	They were selling 40 and 80 meg versions at AEW, but they said you
can buy your own mini IDE drive [contact them for specifications] and send it
to them and they'll mount it on a card for you.. That is, if you want a huuuge
drive or something.

	The drive powers down after a user-definable period of time [including
never].
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