Re: Mac Hard Disk 20 on an Apple?

[raymac@crl.com (Raymond D. McAnally)]

David R. Villegas (mnementh@netcom.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know if I can use a Mac Hard Disk 20 on an Apple (via the GS
: drive port, or a Superdrive controller)?  Before anyone spouts out anything
: about a SCSI card, the HD 20 has a DB-19 connector and connects to the
: disk drive port on older Macs.

Just as the older Macintosh 3.5 inch drives will not work on a GS, 
neither will that Hard Drive. It might be possible if you had a Laser UDC 
card or a PCTransporter, but I never tried it. I didn't want to rick 
blowing the cards. That drive was designed to work with the early Macs, 
like the 128 and 512, which had no SCSI port. I had one hooked up to a 
Macintosh Plus for a while. In a word, SLOW! I used it strictly for data 
storage and not to boot the machine.

Do not hook it to the GS drive port under any circumstance as it will fry 
the IWM chip.
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