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Subject: Re: Hard Drives
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Date: 27 Apr 91 20:31:00 GMT
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In article <11359@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> grochoci@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Paul Grochocinski) writes:
>	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?  

	Yes this is really true. It's true because there have been many
standards accepted and widely used in the computer industry. Among them are
ASCII (IBM developed their own EBCDIC) and SCSI.
	
	So that means you can just go out and get a SCSI drive and a case/
power supply and just plug it in and go.

	I now have a hard drive, and it's simply a SCSI hard drive in a case 
(case & power supply only cost $45 vs. the about $100-$150 places like Tulin 
rip you off for).

>	Are there any limitations as to what I can use it for.  Because I've
>	seen some pretty cheap drives advertised on other nets and knowing that
>	they were probably used for IBM's, can I still use it on my GS.

	Nope, no limitations. It's just a hard drive. Usable for whatever
hard drives are usable for.
	They probably WEREN'T used for IBMs.. IBMs don't normally use
SCSI drives.. Seems they're being used more and more, but I think it's still
valid to say that SCSI drives are far from the "standard drive used" in the
IBM world.
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