Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple IIe SCSI Card. Is It Worth Using? Message-ID: <15768@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 8 Apr 91 21:43:09 GMT References: Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 31 In article steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell) writes: >can an apple II make use of up to 13ms access times SCSI drives offer. Sure, why not. >can it be a single partition,reguardless of size. Not if you want it to work with standard Apple operating systems. There is an upper limit of 32MB for a ProDOS filesystem (partition). >cad it use DOS 3.3 or UniDOS 3.3. Why would you want to? >can it boot from the drive under dos 3.3 or unidos I suspect that DOS 3.3 variants would not understand the SCSI hardware. >can i create 5.25' allocations and copy protected software to them. I don't understand this question. You can copy protected software anyway, but the copy probably wouldn't work. >is it as useful as having a HD on a mac. I don't know how useful a Macintosh HD is, but certainly a hard disk is extremely useful on an Apple IIGS. For a //e, it would depend on what your requirements are. If you're trying to do software development (for example, using Aztec C), then I would highly recommend any supported hard disk; I used to use a 5MB ProFile on my //e and it beat the heck out of swapping floppies.