Re: easy project? IBM Microdrive

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

Michael J. Mahon (mjmahon@aol.com) wrote:
: This brings this tread full circle!

: The discussion started with a concern about the long-term write
: endurance of CF cards used as primary "hard disks".

: Even with wear levelling, and with the 100,000-class re-write
: endurance of newer CF cards, there remains some concern about
: the practical lifetime of these devices when used daily in a high-
: update environment, like software development.

So here's a real-world question, then...

On Sunday night, my 250Mb SCSI drive in my IIgs stalled.  This is a drive
that has been up and running more-or-less 24/7 for the past ten years or
so.  I was running a specialized text file editor in Applesoft and all the
sudden it just quit.

So...

To put this system back together again, given that I have a High Speed
SCSI card and a Vulcan power supply/case and all the cables necessary for
an internal SCSI drive...

Anybody got any sugestions for my best way to proceed?  Should I be
digging up another tiny little SCSI drive, or should I be looking at some
kind of SCSI->memory card adapter?

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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