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From: jnsims01@ulkyvx.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Exchanging drives - Internal<->External
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.105521.557@ulkyvx.bitnet>
Date: 18 Jun 91 14:55:20 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville
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Does anyone have any experience with buying an external SCSI hardrive and
swapping the drive mechanism for an internal Apple mechanism? Here's the
situation. I need a 40MB external drive for a MacPlus which currently has no
hard drive. I also own a MacClassic with the Apple-supplied 40MB internal
drive. What I'd like to do is purchase a larger external hard drive (say,
80-105MB) and swap the drive mechanisms, putting the larger drive in the
Classic and the smaller drive in the now-empty external case for use with the
Plus. Any idea if this can be done? Problems I should look out for? Useful tips
or techniques? Answers especially welcome from those who may have actually done
this, as I distrust 'theoretical' answers 8-). As always, e-mail responses to
the addresses below are preferred; I'll sumarize if anyone else indicates
interest. 

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. John Norman Sims, Jr.  /  BITNET: JNSIMS01@ULKYVM or JNSIMS01@ULKYVX .
. Univ. of Louisville / Computing & Telecommunications / (502)588-5565 .
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