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- From: joe@oilean.islandsw.com (Joe McGuckin)
- Subject: Can I use a fast SCSI disk on a SS1?
- Message-ID: <JOE.92Dec17111844@oilean.islandsw.com>
- Sender: joe@islandsw.com (Joe McGuckin)
- Organization: Island Software
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:18:44 GMT
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- Several vendors have told me that I can't. One vendor actually told me that the
- "drive goes too fast & will burn up the computer". She was talking about a 5.25
- external drive! (Sounds like she has an overactive imagination.)
-
- I would think that on a SS1, a high speed drive would negotiate the transfer
- rate downward to something the host adaptor could keep up with. But I can't
- believe that:
-
- a) it wouldn't work at all
-
- b) it might damage the computer.
-
- I'm specifically interested in adding one of the newer 2.0G or 3.5G drives
- to my old & wheezy Sparc 1. Which will soon get a motherboard swap to become a
- SS2-clone.
-
- One nice feature of the Superworkstation board swap: I can still use my old memory. 80ns
- simms work with this board. So I don't have buy all new memory.
-
- -joe
-
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- Joe McGuckin joe@islandsw.com
- Island Software oilean!joe@sgi.com
- (415) 969-5453
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