Re: WTB SCSI HD

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <22JUL199721093869@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>In article "Dan Yertzell" <Dan-Yertzell@worldnet.att.net> writes...
>
>>Still looking for a SCSI hard drive, case & ps and cable for a //gs.  Don't
>>suggest Alltech - I've called them twice.  Both times the woman who answers
>>the phone asks for my name and number and says someone will call me back.
>>One week later no one has.  Interesting way to do business - turning away
>>customers ready to buy.
>
>    If you already have a SCSI interface card installed (i.e. RamFAST,
>Apple HS or Rev C) there is no reason you need to shop Apple II vendors
>to find a SCSI hardrive. SCSI is SCSI, there is no such thing as an
>Apple II-specific SCSI hardrive. In fact, quite often you'll be paying
>more for a drive from such a vendor than you would elsewhere (Scantron
>Quality Computers is a perfect example of paying more than you should
>for a so-called "Apple II hardrive").

Yep, I'd recommend trying groups like comp.sys.mac.wanted and misc.forsale.
computers.storage. Drives under 1 gb, particularly under 500 mb, are going 
mighty cheap in these days of $100/gb hard disks. No one sells new drives
under a gig any more and that would be utter overkill on a IIgs even if it
worked. I moved up from a 105 mb to a 230 mb on mine only because I had the
drive on hand and it had the Apple ROM while the 105 did not. That's a handy
feature since Apple's formatter for the Mac will work on it. I attribute my
lack of HFS problems on my IIgs' hard disk in part to being formatted and
partitioned on a Mac. And running Norton on it certainly doesn't hurt. That's
with a 200 mb HFS volume and a 30 mb ProDOS volume. But I digress. Mitch is
right, people who cater to Apple II users try to gouge them pretty hard on
SCSI hard disks.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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