Re: Hard Drives for Apple //c+

[ab616@cfn.cs.dal.ca (Tony Cianfaglione)]

Forest Hursey (forest@cis.ohio-state.edu) wrote:

: Thanks to everyone who replied to my request on how to hook up SCSI
: drives to a //c+ .... I basically think the situation stinks. I have
: to pay $500 for a 100meg hard drive! ( not gonna do it ever ) I have a
: Conner 200meg that I wanted to use. I think I could get a gig for
: $500. Are there any other alternatives to SCSI or is the only way to
: hook up a hard drive through the smart port. I'd really like to run a BBS off
: my //c+. Thanks again.

: Forest


     The biggest setback with the IIc/IIc+ when it comes to hard drives 
is the fact that ProDOS only recognizes 32 meg in each partition and 
you're limited to 4 drives on the Smartport, not counting the 5.25 external.
     So...if you partition the first 96 meg into three partitions and use 
a UniDisk 3.5", which uses the fourth Smartport option, you're all filled 
up. You've got 4 megs sitting idle and no place to go. GS/OS allows 8 
Smartport devices and has no limit that I know of in megs on a hard drive.
     So...if you could get a hard drive with more than a 100meg, then you 
could probably get it cheaper as the price goes down in relative  
comparison to the megabyte amount. A 500 meg hard drive would be cheaper 
per meg. But...ProDOS won't use it and so it would be wasted.

Tony. 

    
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           Tony Cianfaglione                 ab616@cfn.cs.dal.ca

        "It only stands to reason, Superman, that when it came time
          to cash in your chips...this old *diseased* maniac would
         be your banker! Mind over muscle?" -Lex Luthor to Superman
                        Superman the Movie - 1978

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