Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:42650 comp.sys.mac.hardware:471 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!zebra.cvs.rochester.edu!carlo From: carlo@zebra.cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: More questions about drives for a IIci Keywords: help! Message-ID: <4136@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 18 Nov 89 17:58:48 GMT Sender: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Reply-To: carlo@cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware Distribution: usa Organization: Univ. Roch. Center for Visual Sci. Lines: 37 Here are some more questions from a total Mac novice -- with a lot of faith: I bought a IIci. Now I badly need to put a hard drive in it: I did not buy it as a package because I decided I could do better from a third party. Now I have looked around enough that I am quite confused. -Is there any reason that a drive that works in a IIcx should not work in a IIci? If an ad says it's a drive for a IIcx, can I just assume the ad has not been updated to reflect the newer model's appearance? -Should I prefer a 3.5" drive over a 5.35" drive for any reason (or for that matter, the other way round)? -Does the software that comes with the drive (if any) matter? Ie do specific drives come with their own drivers, and should I be careful that I get a 'good' driver, or are they the kind of thing you plug in and up pops the icon? If not, can I buy a cheap drive for it somewhere with a lousy driver and a better driver from somewhere else? -If I put a 3.5" drive in the Mac now, can I put another internal drive in later? I opened up a IIx with an internal 5.25" drive, and it looks like in its place I could put a couple of 3.25"... does this seem really silly? Would it melt the power supply? Can that be beefed up, if I decided to put 2 drives in? One of the reasons that comes to mind for disliking external drives is that I expect my Mac to go to Europe at times, and whereas it is "power sensing" (universal voltage/mains frequency) external drives may not be. Also, there is a question of compactness -- that's what the 'c' is all about in the IIc_ series, I think. Anything you can tell me about your drive, or a supplier would be welcome. Thanks, Carlo. PS -- followups to comp.sys.mac.hardware. carlo@cvs.rochester.edu "Oh shit, not /dev/null!!!"