Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!ncar!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!studsys!jetzer From: jetzer@studsys.mu.edu (jetzer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: HD20 Advice requested Summary: upgrade Keywords: slloooowwwww.... zzzzz Message-ID: <238@studsys.mu.edu> Date: 15 Sep 88 20:28:27 GMT References: Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lines: 29 In article , halldors@paul.rutgers.edu (Magnus M Halldorsson) writes: > Once upon a time... I got a Mac and thought it was awsome. And I was > one of the first to buy Apple's first hard disk (for the Mac): HD20. > It was great....for a while...and then came HD20 SCSI, and mine was > suddenly a drag & no upgrade available. But it was still neat, fast > enough, lots of space.... > Somehow as it's been used more, it has become slower, and slower, > and ..... It's now to the point that booting up takes 2 min! (approx). > It's slower than a floppy drive! > Questions: > 3) Anything else I could do? (How much could I get for it, if I buy > a Jasmine instead....?) You didn't mention which Mac you have, but since you are considering buying a Jasmine (I assume it's SCSI) HD, I will assume that you have a Mac with a SCSI port. I remember reading this past summer in Mac {User, World, Week, Today} about a card that can be installed in the HD20 to upgrade it to a HD20SC. The card wasn't cheap, as I recall, but it was cheaper than buying a new hard disk. I don't know who the manufacturer of the card is (and the magazines are at work, not here at school). Anybody else read about this? -- Mike Jetzer "Hack first, ask questions later."