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From: turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel)
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Subject: Re: Hard disks
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Date: Sun, 30-Nov-86 23:40:03 EST
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question about "after market" HD deleted for brievity's sake
> 
> Does this imply that if you buy the Berekeley boards and an SCSI drive,
> you have to buy a separate power supply for the drive (ie.  you can't
> buy a hard drive for ~$350 with built in power)?  If this is true, how hard
> is it to select and connect a power supply for the new hard drive, especially
> if you have little experience with that sort of thing?
> 
> Bart
> atwell@utah-cs

all of the HD's i've encountered come without power supply for the
base price (used is a different story), hooking up a power supply is
trivial since they all (again that ive seen) take a standard keyed
connector, in fact its the same one that floppy disks use.

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