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From: oliver@thelink.UUCP (Joel Sumner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Sider SCSI
Message-ID: <126@thelink.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 22:56:14 GMT
Organization: TheLink-Public Access Unix, South Bend, IN.
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In reply to:

>I used to have a Sider ][ (10 meg) a year or two ago, and they simply
>made Prodos into two partitions that were adjustable (/HARD1 and /HARD2).
>I expect that they use a similar scheme for their large capacity drives,
>thus avoiding the problem of the Prodos 32 Meg limit.
>
>I do not know what the access times on these drives are; that seems to be
>a relatively unimportant thing in the world of Apple II hard disks (not
>unimportant to me, though).  However, if I have my facts straight, these
>drives are NOT SCSI.
 
From what I have seen in A+ magazine, The sider uses and old version of SCSI
that uses 50 pins instead of the Apple 25-pin and is supposedly slower.. But
if you buy an upgrade chip, the Sider can run faster than a SCSI drive...
 
  



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