Re: [?] Quantum drive

[smentzer@pacbell.net (Steven W. Mentzer)]

>Will the following work with a RamFast (3.01e) on a ROM 01 GS?
>Are they any good?
>Any other advice, quirks, etc.?
>
>
>Quantum 1080S Empire Series SCSI Hard Drives
>Unformatted Capacity:  1.2 GB
>Formatted Capacity:  1.08 GB
> 
>Form Factor:  3.5"
> 
>Interface:  SCSI-3   50 pin


I dont know about the quantum's but I am running a similar Conner 1.08GB SCSI3 
hard disk with the high density 50 pin wide connector trunked down to a 50 
pin flat ribbon SCSI-II, which in turn feeds a 50 pin low-density 
centronics SCSI connector (which gets trunked down to a DB25) and it works 
great with a ramfast scsi (although mine is a very recent model). I dont think 
that Rom01 is going to be an issue (although I have seen stranger things). 

It is fast (much faster than a IIgs/RamFast SCSI anyhow) and it works like a 
charm. However, there are some things for you to consider. 

1 - Prodos only allows 32 meg partitions. Big problem when trying to manage 
large drives.
2 - You can "try" to run HFS, but there are problems with partitions ~100Megs 
or more. FWIW - I have been running a 750 meg HFS partition for several months 
now without any real problems. I expect some corruption soon.

smentzer@pacbell.net