Re: Hard drives (Was re: QC)

[kindall@falcon.ic.net (Jerry Kindall)]

Luigi (luigi@ace.com) wrote:


:  >    I'm sorry, there's no excuse for this. Apple II SCSI drives are no
:  >different than Macintosh or IBM SCSI hardrives. Formatting a drive wit
:  >ProDOS is not some complex proceedure, nor is there any "special setup

: Mind if I break in? Thanks :)

: OK, I already knew I could use Mac SCSI hard drives by just reformatting
: them, but is it also possible to re-use an IBM external SCSI drive? By
: the way you worded that, it would seem that you think I can. Since I
: think IBM drives are generally a few dollars cheaper than Mac's, I'd
: love to do that if I can...

An IBM SCSI drive is a Mac SCSI drive is an Amiga SCSI drive is an Atari 
SCSI drive is an Apple II SCSI drive is a Sun SCSI drive is a... well, 
the point is that SCSI is a computer-independent device standard.  If you 
have a SCSI drive that was used on an IBM then you can almost certainly 
use it on an Apple II by reformatting it.

However, most PCs use IDE drives, not SCSI drives, although that trend is 
beginning to change.  (About the same time PCs started to use SCSI 
drives, Apple started to put IDE drives in Macs.  Go figure.)  You can 
use an IDE drive on an Apple II, but you need an IDE interface card, not 
a SCSI interface card.  The only card I know of is the TurboIDE card.

I personally would suggest sticking with SCSI because of its technical 
superiority.

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