Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!uniol!Gerhard.Moeller From: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Advice on what to buy.. Message-ID: <5989@uniol.UUCP> Date: 24 Jun 91 19:53:56 GMT References: <1991Jun23.180633.26224@doug.cae.wisc.edu> Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany Lines: 60 cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick) writes: >In article <1991Jun23.180633.26224@doug.cae.wisc.edu> chris@castlab.engr.wisc.edu (Christian Rohrmeier) writes: > Some one suggested > that to save money.. avoid a NeXT HD and buy a 3rd party SCSI for alot > less... same thing for memory. > Any words of avice??? >Unless you're quite Unix/compu-knowledgeable, buy the stuff from NeXT. >There is something to be said for taking the machine out of the box, >plugging it in, turning it on, and having everything already set up >and working. >-- > The opinions expressed herein are mine and are in no way attributed ^^^^ hmm. Do you work for NeXT? > to any of the many people for whom I work. Who they are is irrelevant. Well, I still suggest to buy a drive from a 3rd party. Even if you are NOT a unix-guru, look at the prices for a external 660MB drive (You'll need that much, if you have inet accesss and do programming or graphic-stuff...) and at those funny pricing-ideas by NeXT. Look at the news or ask, what drives work properly, get some advise how to connect those. I use a wren6. It's fast, NOT noisy (VERY IMPORTANT!!!!) and more or less cheap. (As I'm German, I don't know about the US prices) What you need: SCSI2->SCSI1 or SCSI2->SCSI2 cable. (this depends on the SCSI cable you'll use for the daisychain, ask somene for more, if you don't know...) A SCSI terminator. (Most devices have built in terminators, you can use them if you cable ENDS at those devices. This is not the normal case, as you can connect more than one device to a SCSI-port. - So I suggest to pull the intern terminators out of the device and use a SCSI terminator at the end of your "intern" SCSI cable.) A drive (you guessed it) A power supply. (Either you get a HDD with case and power supply already configuratet, or get a cheap PClike case with power supply.) 1 bottle of congnac (Hennessy VSOP or, even better, XO) or whisky (for yous Americans...;-)) You need to set the SCSI ID. (read the manual for the drive) The drive comes (normally) formatted, so you just have to init it. So you need a disktab entry. Post here what drive you are thinking of, and I'm sure you'll get lots of nice entries. - I can send you mine for the wren, others for maxtor, fujitsu and so on have been sent already... It's not that hard to do it - if you try... gerhard. -No warranty on the above said, of course... ;-) -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ | Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [Geb. 02/21/68] | | inhouse: gimli!gemoe uucp: ...(unido!)uniol!gmoeller | |DOMAIN: gerhard.moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de | |BITNET: gmoeller%arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de@DOLUNI1 (106495@DOLUNI1) | +-----------------------> the medium is the message <-----------------------+