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- From: kjv@exucom.com (Karl J. Vesterling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hard drives...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.090048.22011@exucom.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 09:00:48 GMT
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- Dave Olson (olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com) wrote:
- : In <1992Dec28.192139.13619@cc.umontreal.ca> soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard) writes:
- : | Is it possible to take a Macintosh hard drive (most probably
- : | SCSI-1 drive) and hook it to an Indigo? Is the reverse possible
- : | too?
-
- : Maybe. Maybe.
-
- Here's a list of what Mac drives doe not function with 4.01 on an Indigo:
-
- o Micronet 650MB Erasable Optical
-
- o Syquest 44MB Removable.
-
- o 9 out of 10 Quantum SCSI Drives. (They're sporadic.)
-
-
-
- : | 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?
- ^^^^^^^
- See above...
- : 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.
-
- Yep... I'll go along with that... MAC SCSI is really
- weird... PC SCSI is a nightmare... Reference Jargon, "Waving a dead
- chicken." when dealing with MAC SCSI...
-
-
- : Conversely, many drives for the Mac have rather poor SCSI implementations.
- : The Quantum drive will probably work, but there are no guarantees.
-
- It may appear to work, but exercise it first... I learned the
- hard way when 80MB of stuff got blown away because the drive went
- crazy, so I umount'ed it, fsck'ed it, and botched it pretty badly.
-
- The Quantum is now living happily ever after on my IIfx. Not
- one problem on the Mac... SCSI Voodoo. (I hear through the grapevine
- that if you click your heals 3 times with your left foot in and your
- right foot out the problems often go away, ;-)
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