Re: Using Mac 20 meg HD on A2 drive port???

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

How about this for an idea...

How about an IDE drive controller that can talk to the SmartPort?  My
thought is to put an itty bitty hard drive (such as a Focus-type drive)
into a //c. Sure, it would be slower than a 'proper' HD interface, but it
would still be faster than the 5.25" floppy.  And more important, it would
provide a space big enough (20Mb would be more than plenty) to hold the OS
and applications, even most of the data that one would need...

A suitably clever person could probably come up with such a thing...it
would work on both the //c and on the GS, though on the GS it would be a
bit pointless as the Focus or a decent SCSI drive would be much faster...

Just a thought...Unfortunately, I don't know enough about either IDE or
SmartPort to do anything about this idea...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
-- 
    /-\        _       _       ***  Thanks for a great season!!!  ***
   /XXX\      /X\     /X\_      _     /X/|_      _     _        _____  
  /XXXXX\    /XXX\  _/XXXX\_   /X\  <#&/XXX\    /X\   /X\      /XXXXX
_/XXXXXXX\__/XXXXX\/XXXXXXXX\_/XXX\_o==oXXXX\__/XXX\_/XXX\_/\_/XXXXXX