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From: Christopher@cup.portal.com (Chris Jay McBride)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Questions about hardware
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Date: 7 Jun 90 02:48:50 GMT
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Well that $295 for a 49meg Seagate hard drive is an amazing price.  In fact
I doubt that dealers can buy them at that price...  That is what makes me 
suspicious about this ad.  If you want to connect a SCSI or IBM MFM type d
you will need to add extra hardware, there is no ands, ifs, nor buts about it
You will need a host adapter, a power supply, and a case to put it all in.
Most hard drives you can buy through ST sources only carry SCSI drives so yo
the above is all you should need.  Seagate make pretty good drives - usually.
If you put one together yourself you might save a little money, but not much, 
and it would probably be easier to just by a Supra or ICD hard drive. (or
one by another company (not Tech-Specilities though), if they use the ICD Host
Adapter.)

I put together my own 20meg, and it ran me about $450 (using used components)
and 2 dead Host Adapters (killed by my own hand - but dont tell ICD), and
some large headaches....