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From: Elric-Kinslayer@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 70 vs MAC II
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Date: 8 Sep 88 23:47:36 GMT
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In a message a few back, woan@cory.berkley.edu wrote something to the effect
that "The SCSI drives on the Mac II will blow away our MFM drives."
This however, is NOT the case with the high end PS/2 machines which use
ESDI controllers and drives, which is an enhanced and extended version of
the SCSI standard. these drives most defiantely smoke ANY SCSI drive,
and come with HUGE Capacities. I my self have installed multiple
Wren V 300 mb ESDI drives in all sorts of computers for network purposes,
and these things are HOT.It did take a while to figure out how to patch
these drives into novell, I must admit,but, considering that this was about May
and the drives were brand new, and we had no sources of information that had
already installed them, this was to be expected. We were able to format them
for normal DOS with out a hitch, I must say. And considering these drives are
only the size of 1 full heght drive bay, I'd say we've just demolished the Mac
II in Disk I/O.
Elric-Kinslayer
A.K.A Matt Mosshoder
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