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From: kenfair@flammulated.rice.edu (Kenneth Jason Fair)
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Subject: Re: Hard Drives
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Date: 27 Apr 91 04:12:54 GMT
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In article <11359@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> grochoci@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Paul Grochocinski) writes:
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>	I was reading my free issue of A+ magazine(it was free so I took it and
>	cancelled the rest).  In their article about dhard drives I got the
>	impression that as long as it was an SCSI drive that I could use it on
>	my GS and initialize it myself.  Is this really true?  

This is true to a certain degree.  You will of course need a SCSI card
(I recommend either Apple High Speed SCSI or RAMFast SCSI), and you
will have to do your own formatting.  You might check out hard drives
from mail-order Macintosh companies; some of their prices are really
low and it's fairly easy (so I understand) to reconfigure for the GS.

As for myself, I have a 40 MB Vulcan (internal) that I bought used for
$400.  I've had no complaints with it.

Talk to some people who know what they're doing before you buy - I
certainly don't.   :-I

Ken




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