Re: SCSI devices for a IIgs

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
20030723010739.20330.00000576@mb-m29.aol.com">news:20030723010739.20330.00000576@mb-m29.aol.com...
> "Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The Zip drive was nice.  If you format the Zip disk as HFS
> >> (making sure the HFS FST is installed on your IIGS
> >> system disk), you don't have to partition the Zip disk.
> >>
> >> I found some old Apple SCSI CD-ROM drives.  I then
> >> kept one of them as is for CD-ROM and removed the
> >> CD-ROM from the other enclosure and installed the
> >> Insider internal SCSI Zip Drive into it.  Worked great.
> >> It was cool to see the black Zip drive inside the
> >> platinum Apple CD-ROM case with Apple logo too.
> >
> >That's a clever hack--putting the zip drive in the CDROM enclosure.  I'm
> >thinking about adding a Zip instead of a hard drive.  Its slower, but I'm
> >not sure I'll really notice given the bus speed limitations of an Apple
II.
>
> You would think you wouldn't notice but surprisingly
> the Zip drive still feels a lot more sluggish than an
> SCSI hard disk drive or even a Focus IDE drive (ie.
> a notebook hard drive on an IDE card).
>
> The Zip drive was about as fast on the IIGS as the
> PC Transporter card's RAM in Apple mode, used
> as a slot based RAM disk.  I would say it was
> at least 3 times slower than my SCSI drive and
> some 2.5 times slower than my Focus drive.  Just
> from feel.
>
> What was really cool about the Zip drive was that
> you could read and write to PC formatted Zip
> disks with Peter Watson's MUG! utility.  I used it
> to transfer a lot of large files back and forth, well
> worth the $10 shareware fee.

His fee is $15 now according to the splash screen, unless
he has lowered it since then and hasn't made it clear from
time to time.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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