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From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
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Subject: Re: Hard drive questions.
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Date: 19 Dec 90 12:53:15 GMT
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In article <11776@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> mcgovern@handel.cs.colostate.edu (michael sea mcgovern) writes:
>I am going to be buying a hard drive for my IIgs, and was hoping that
>someone who knows about this stuff could give me some advice.

Buy a SCSI controller for your //. The RAMFast is probably the
best/fastest thing out there right now. Now pick up any Mac rag
(MacWEEK is a good one) and flip to the back. There you will find
ungodly low prices on SCSI drives. A Quantum 80mb is $450 (or lower!).
This is what I did.

Anyone who tells you that the Mac SCSI drive won't work on your // is
full of it. The interfaces are identical. Most drives come
pre-formatted, but the utils that come with the SCSI card should be
able to reformat if you need to.

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Dave Whitney
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