Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ncc!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!tikal!dad!nelson
From: nelson@dad.UUCP (Paul Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hard disks
Message-ID: <3176@dad.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 15:33:42 GMT
Organization: R & D Associates, Tacoma, WA
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> 
> CMS has an 80 meg drive for about $1200, including the SCSI card.  If you
> chose the A2P model, it comes partitioned into 2 32 meg drivers (the largest
> that prodos can handle at this time) and formatted for ProDos.  I have seen
> this drive advertised under $1000 ...
> 

I have a CMS SD60 (60 Meg) that holds two 30 meg volumes.  I bought it at
the A.P.P.L.E Coop (Renton WA.) for $1100.  If you are a Coop member you
will also get a dividend on your purchases.  I have found it to work very
well with my GS, but have some minor irritation with it.  I would like to
leave it turned off when my kids are running their software from floppy,
but this makes PRODOS 16 hang while booting.  I would also like to be able
to scan for startup disks with the hard disk off and have the firmware skip
to slot 6 but this doesn't work either.  These problems should be able to
be fixed in the firmware on the SCSI board.  I am planning on calling CMS
to get their view of this situation.  Does anyone know what the story is
with the (CMS) SCSI firmware?
				
						Paul Nelson
						tikal!dad!nelson