Re: Apple SCSI Drives

["Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@ameritech.net>]

Robert J. Stevens <snevets@execpc.com> wrote in article
<39343d0a$0$50552@news.execpc.com>...
> I was given a couple of Apple SCSI Drives [160 meg by IBM and a Quantum
> ProDrive 80 LPS might be 85 meg] to test. I used my Adaptec 1542CF on a
> 386-40. They both are recognized and boot up to the message "NO ROM
> BASIC". What to I need to connect these drives to my APPLE IIe. ie Power
> supply; cable; etc.
> Bob in Wisconsin

The NO ROM BASIC message means that you did not use FDISK to set the active
partition.

I have several IBM 540MB SCSI drives.  They work fine in PCs with SCSI
cards, but no Apple I own (II or Mac) will see them.  Weird.

The first thing you need to connect them to an Apple II is an Apple II SCSI
card.  After that, you need a power supply and SCSI cable.  You can get an
external hard drive case with power supply for about $40.  Any standard Mac
SCSI data cable (DB25 to Centronics 50) should work.

My IIe is powered by a PC power supply.  My hard drive sits naked and is
powered by one of the power connectors from the power supply.  I have an
adapter for the data cable.

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Paul R. Santa-Maria
Ann Arbor, Michigan  USA
paulrsm@ameritech.net