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From: CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <90311.152209CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 20:22:09 GMT
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Next question....

In article <1990Nov7.160943.19804@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, khcg0492@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
(Kenneth Holden Chang) says:

>(Someone earlier said that one of the advantages of the Next was that you
>could add any arbitrary disk drive, but surely that requires modifying some
>files to tell the computer what the drive can/cannot do.)

Would someone who is intimately familiar with the process please describe
*exactly* what it takes to add another hard drive to the NeXTstation?  Say
I want to add a Syquest-mechanism removable-cartridge hard drive to it --
what do I have to do?  (Or CAN you add them to NeXT's...?).

On a Mac, the process is as follows:

1) Plug in the drive.  If you already have another external drive, this means
   plugging it into the end of the SCSI line.  Otherwise, you plug it into
   the SCSI port on the back of the Mac.

2) Next, copy a particular file from the floppy that came with the drive into
   your System Folder.

3) Now, turn on your drive, and reboot.  It's installed, and you can use it
   just like any other 45-MB drive.

Somehow I doubt it's this easy on a NeXT....

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