Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!prism!gt1111a
From: gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: hooking up 3rd party drives?
Message-ID: <31783@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 91 18:58:50 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 17

Any words of wisdom on hooking up SCSI drives on a Personal Iris?

Those 1/2 height 5-1/4" drives are just too darned expensive. I'm looking
at 760 meg in a shoebox for about $2K. Where in the PI should I try to
hook in the external SCSI cable. The only point-of-attack I see without
taking the PI apart is the extra 50 pin connecter in the back of the
empty 1/2 height slot above the tape drive. I could get some 50pin ribbon
cable and route it out of the PI here, unless there is a better point to
connect. 

More importantly, will IRIX be able to format and recognize any 3rd party
drives? I would think so, but I'm looking to be sure before I jump in.
-- 
Vincent Fox (That's Mr. Bucko to you)|Georgia Tech, the only place where Friday
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA             |is only two working days away from Monday.
SR-71: gt1111a@prism.gatech.edu      |  -- Uttered by David Sonnier during
Pony Express:...!gatech!prism!gt1111a|     CS3602 lab 5/10/1991 ~ 1730 EDT