Re: Yet another HD question

[rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)]

In article <4pppib$k63@hpcvsnz.cv.hp.com>, billh@lsid.hp.com (Bill Harris)
writes:

>
>I may be joining the company of those whose HDs are giving out. ....
> Here are some alternatives; does anyone have
>any experience that suggests one is better than the others?  (BTW, it's
an
>unaccelerated GS with a RAMFAST Rev. D [I forget which release of the
ROM]
>and 4+MB RAM.)
>
>    Buy a new SCSI-2 drive.  Put it in the existing TMS case and use the
>    same power supply, if possible.  I've seen 830MB for $195 and 1GB for
>    around $250 locally.
>
>    Buy a new external SCSI-2 drive.  I don't have prices for this yet.
>
>    If I do either of those, backup to floppies becomes worse than
>prohibitive. .... 
>
>Since I use Prosel/16 for disk management, it seems to make sense to
>partition any such disk such that the partitions can be all ProDOS.
>

     The SCSI replacements sound like good deals. You can worry about
using zip, tape, etc. for backup later. (Were you to get a Buggie PS, the
drive could be mounted internally where the current IIgs PS is now. I
don't know if Steve Buggie offers plugs with power extensions for internal
hard drives. Perhaps some one has done this and can supply details.)

     Once you go much above 200MB it is difficult to handle partitioning
in just ProDOS-- you would end up with too many partitions. Most users
seem to go with 4-6 ProDOS partitions and a large HFS partition.


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