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- From: darenp@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daren Patel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Can a Station live without an internal drive?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 00:50:34 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- In article <1993Jan25.230703.25813@cs.wm.edu> ciardo@cs.wm.edu (Gianfranco Ciardo) writes:
- >
- >I am also thinking to pull out the original 250 and sell it on the
- >net to recoup some cash, but, for variuos reasons, I would like to
- >keep the Fujitsu in the external enclosure, not in the the Station.
-
- Yes, you can do this. Here's what you need to do: (1) Set up the
- external drive and make sure you're booting from this drive. (2) Take out the
- internal drive and put the cables, screws, etc. in a safe place where you can
- find them if you need them later. (3) Now, you'll need a SCSI ribbon cable
- like the one that was in there originally. Cut one end off of this cable and
- put a fifty-pin Centronics SCSI connector on the cut end. (4) Buy a
- Macintosh SCSI terminator and attach it to the Centronics connector on the
- SCSI ribbon cable. (5) Now, attach the female fifty-pin end of the SCSI
- ribbon cable to the double row SCSI pins on the mother board. You can tape
- this down to the empty space when the internal drive used to be. This worked
- for me, but I can't guaranty the results for anybody else. Your machine should
- boot from the external drive now without any problems. I also hear that
- you can buy an internal SCSI terminator so you don't need the contraption
- described above, but I was unable to find anyone that sold them. Hope it works
- for you...
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