Re: Converting 2mg's back to real hardware?

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Xerxes409 <colin_tokyo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> At any rate, you should be able to copy 32MB of data on and off the drive
>> in about five seconds from your PC, so it's easy to experiment once you
>> have it partitioned.
> 
> Whoop -- one more question. I need to get a new SCSI hard drive
> (external, obviously). Since I live in Japan, the crazy electronics
> district has lots of retro Mac hardware and HDD's in smaller sub-1GB
> sizes. Should I buy a certain size (or would it be futile to get
> anything bigger than a certain megabyte count?).

If you're sticking to ProDOS 8, anything over 256MB (8 32MB partitions) is
silly.  If you're using HFS under GS/OS, go nuts.  I think you'd be
hard pressed to fill up 2GB with Apple II stuff -- I think the full Asimov
archive is under 1GB.

Any SCSI-II compliant drive should work, at least with the Apple HS SCSI card.

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