Re: Max Size

[shack@pro-ict.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

>> I've seen some 150meg drives going for around $100.00.  They are SCSI.
>> Will they work with my Apple SCSI card?
>
>Almost certainly.  I have yet to find a SCSI hard drive that doesn't
>work with my Apple High-Speed SCSI card.  I would expect any new drive
>to work (provided it doesn't require Fast and/or Wide SCSI II).
>
>I have used Seagate, SyQuest, Rodime and Quantum drives.
>
>Be wary of older second-hand drives.  Certain SCSI drives for the
>Macintosh used non-standard techniques such as getting the computer to
>specify a SCSI ID for the drive.  The Apple II cannot support these
>drives.

I had a drive for a short time which would not work with my HS SCSI equipped
machine. It was a Quantum mechanism in a Mac Bottom external case. The drive
worked great on a Mac but when I tried it on my IIgs it would end up with
brain dead partitions e.g. the bit map pointer would be set to a block
address out of range for the volume, there would be I/O errors, and the
Finder would want to eject the devices each time it ran. I got the guy to
take it back luckily.

I bought another drive and made sure it would work before I took it. It had a
Seagate mechanism in it. I also tried a Quantum mechanism just like the other
one in this case and it worked great. 

In short it's more important to make sure the case will work than the
mechanism you use.
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Randy Shackelford                              "That's right, keep dancing
shack@pro-ict.cts.com                           on the minefield"
                                                                 -Al Bundy