Re: SCSI devices for a IIgs

["Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The Zip drive was nice.  If you format the Zip disk as HFS
> (making sure the HFS FST is installed on your IIGS
> system disk), you don't have to partition the Zip disk.
>
> I found some old Apple SCSI CD-ROM drives.  I then
> kept one of them as is for CD-ROM and removed the
> CD-ROM from the other enclosure and installed the
> Insider internal SCSI Zip Drive into it.  Worked great.
> It was cool to see the black Zip drive inside the
> platinum Apple CD-ROM case with Apple logo too.

That's a clever hack--putting the zip drive in the CDROM enclosure.  I'm
thinking about adding a Zip instead of a hard drive.  Its slower, but I'm
not sure I'll really notice given the bus speed limitations of an Apple II.