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From: aroest@fwi.uva.nl (Axel Roest (N))
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Subject: Re: Hard drive help
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Date: 21 Jun 91 10:16:45 GMT
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gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk writes:

>In article <1991Jun18.150722.11110@lut.ac.uk> N.D.Moss@lut.ac.uk (Jam Jar)
>SCSI drives aren't made for PC's; SCSI drives are just SCSI drives, but
>you wouldn't think this from the price 'Acorn' compnies charge for
>them.  Did you know you can get a fast 1Gb drive now for 2K?  I bought
>my 330Mb drive a year ago for 800 quid.  I seriously recommend that
>if you are up to it, buy a decent SCSI drive (in your price range, 200Mb)
>and house it externally in a home made box.  The hardest part will be
>making a SCSI cable if the drive has an IDC rather than a SCSI plug.

IMHO, most SCSI drives are made for the Macintosh market :-)
What do you mean by a SCSI plug? The SCSI link is just a list of 50 connections
No connector type is in the specs. Most SCSI drives have flatcable (IDC) con-
nectors. Sometimes the external box has a 50-pin centronics-type conn.
These two are quite easy to interconnect. You can just press a flatcable in
between, the pin layout is the same.

>My estimate is that people selling drives for Archies are charging
>100% *above* what would give them an acceptable profit.

I totally agree with that.

>Graham

Axel
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