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- From: root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
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- Subject: Re: EGGPLANT, IMPLANT, EMPATH, BLAZEPLANT...
- Message-ID: <root.02x3@rkamiga.UUCP>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:13:48 GMT
- References: <vrq16lj@rpi.edu> <1992Nov12.130235.13076@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Nov12.133846.14559@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Nov12.221002.24398@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <BxtwrB.ByD@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <root.02w9@rkamiga.UUCP> <1992Nov19.132514.4999@pcnntp.apple.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.132514.4999@pcnntp.apple.com> Dale_Adams@gateway.qm.apple.com (Dale Adams) writes:
- >In article <root.02w9@rkamiga.UUCP> root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >> External SCSI drives for the Mac have a pc board inside that translates
- >> Apple SCSI to real SCSI.
- >
- >External and internal SCSI drives for the Mac are not different from each
- >other (aside from the fact that the external drive has a case and power
- >supply). There are no PC boards needed to perform a SCSI translation.
- >I've used an off-the-shelf SCSI hard drive (a Seagate Wren VII) on a Mac
- >with no problems. At most, on some drives, you might need some firmware
- >modifications (i.e., a new ROM). And you will need a SCSI driver to run
- >on the Mac, although there are quite a few good ones from 3rd parties
- >available these days which work with a very wide variety of SCSI drives (I
- >use FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit).
-
- Yup. I had some mail about this. I believe that back when the Mac Plus
- first came out, the external SCSI drive box had a SCSI to ST506 converter
- inside which was connected to a dirt cheap Rodime 20 meg drive. Later
- Apple external drives just have a SCSI drive inside.
-
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