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From: king@ivory.UUCP (Steven King)
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Date: 9 Sep 89 20:43:01 GMT
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I've been reading the discussions here about SCSI hard drives, and I've been
thinking to myself, "Yeah.  Just the ticket.  But I own a //e, not a gs!"  As
I understand the process, the hardware involved is identical.  Get myself the
Apple SCSI card, a case and power supply, and the drive itself and I'm off and
running.  I've seen mention of low-level formatting of the drive and mention
that the SCSI Hacker program will handle it.  I've ALSO seen mention that SCSI
Hacker is a GS-specific program.  Is there anything similar available for the
//e?  ProSEL and its accompanying utilities were mentioned in one of the 
articles.  Will they run on the //e, and will they do what I need?  After the
low-level format, the ProDOS format is needed.  One article said that any
ProDOS formatter will work, so I'm assuming Copy ][+ will do the trick.  Now,
about partitioning.  ProDOS has a 32Mbyte limit on volume size, correct?  If
I were to get a larger drive, is there something available to partition it for
me?  (ProSEL [or its utilities] would do the trick I'd imagine, if they're
capable of doing the low-level format in the first place.)  With the Apple
SCSI card can I have more than two volumes in any slot?  That is, if would I
be wasting my efforts to buy a hard drive larger than 64Mb?
 
On the non-SCSI front, what options do I have?  The Sider, of course.  And I've
seen an ad from Applied Ingenuity that says there's a version of the Innerdrive
available for the //e.  Does anyone have any recommendations/warnings regarding
either of these units?  My //e is going to be turned into a full-time BBS Real
Soon Now (like, about the time I get a hard drive for it!) and I'd like a
drive that can handle that sort of thing.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

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