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From: REIDMP@MAINE.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: External Hard Drive Question
Message-ID: <91051.141336REIDMP@MAINE.BITNET>
Date: 20 Feb 91 19:13:36 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System
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Is there some kind of kit you can use to convert an internal hard drive
to an external one?  I have a situation where a second machine serves
only as a backup, and would use the same data as the primary machine.
Backing up/restoring on tape is a pain in the ass, particularly since the
data is constantly changing.  It would be better if I could just swap
cables.
 
If there is no such thing, I would appreciate pointers on good external
hard drives of around 150 meg capacity and up, pref. ST506 interface
so I can keep using the existing controllers (unless they come with
their own hard & floppy drive controller).
 
That brings up a question:  Do drives advertised as MFM and RLL always
have ST506 interface?  Advertisers seem to mix-and-match when using
acronyms for encoding schemes and for interfaces.  sigh... confusion...
 
 
(Life was so much easier when I only worried about software bugs!)
 
 
Thanx
 
     Reid M. Pinchback