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- From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Mac Plus Ext. HD. Any problems?
- Message-ID: <14749@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 15:05:20 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- In an article, Ken Wessen <kpw105@huxley.anu.edu.au> writes:
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- |> I wish to buy an external SCSI hard disk for a mac plus, but some
- |> people have mentioned that there may be problems due to the slow
- |> speed of the plus. If I got just an ordinary third party Quantum
- |> SCSI hard disk and formatted with a 3:1 interleave ratio, would
- |> there be any problems? I certainly dont want to have to buy an
- |> old apple 20 or 40 meg disk. Thanks for any help
- |>KKen
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- Ken I use a GCC UltraDrive 40S, which is cached internally and runs with a 1:1
- interleave on my Plus. It is noticeably faster than hard drives on other
- Pluses I use. So I would expect that you will have little or no problems.
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