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From: legler@masig2.masig1.ocean.fsu.edu (David M. Legler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: DIY hard disk drive
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Date: 11 Mar 91 03:13:48 GMT
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I want to put together a hard disk setup for myself.  When the price
for an Apple II specific package (40 Meg disk) is $600 or more (for
Apple) and we can get 40Meg drives for $319 from several vendors, it
is silly not to go the route of making your own.

I know I will need the Apple SCSI card (the RAMFast card is more than
I need right now).  By the way InCider is talking (not that they are
always correct), there seems to be a potential problem with using hard
disks sold to primarily the Mac market as the Mac pseudo-standard does
not require all the SCSI connections; so I need to know which disk
drives people are using - has anyone found this Mac SCSI standard to
be a problem ?

I would also like a recommendation on what kind of formatting software
to buy - for I would potentially like to have partitions for ProDos, Dos
3.3, and GS/OS.

This would certainly be of interest to lots of folks, especially since
the April 1991 issue of Mac User reviews 32 "budget" hard drives.  40
meg drives are going for about $300 - $400 these days.

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