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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Hard drives...
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Dec28.192139.13619@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 05:03:54 GMT
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- In <1992Dec28.192139.13619@cc.umontreal.ca> soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard) writes:
- | Is it possible to take a Macintosh hard drive (most probabily
- | SCSI-1 drive) and hook it to an Indigo? Is the reverse possible
- | too?
-
- Maybe. Maybe.
-
- | I have heard that the system boot disk for some Indogoes is a
- | Seagate ST1280N. I have called Seagate to get specs about it...
- | but they said they had nothing on the darn thing... But when I
- | have asked about the ST1480N... ahhh! they had plenty about it!
- | (info that is!). Could anyone tell me the specs about that drive?
-
- The 1480 and 1280 are identicaly, except for the number of platters.
-
- | Would it still be possible to put such a drive in a Macintosh? (It
- | is possible to put an ST1480N in it)? Would I be able to put a
- | Quantum LPS210 in the Indigo?
-
- Maybe. Maybe.
-
- The problem with moving drives to the Mac is that many models
- of Mac (all but the most recent?) don't handle unit attention
- properly on power up or after SCSI bus reset.
-
- Conversely, many drives for the Mac have rather poor SCSI implementations.
- The Quantum drive will probably work, but there are no guarantees.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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