Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!kamath
From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Cirrus Hard Drives
Message-ID: <11912@reed.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 89 01:35:39 GMT
References: <4Y1Jriy00Uk1A27VJl@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <4Y1Jriy00Uk1A27VJl@andrew.cmu.edu> jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes:
>I have seen 30 meg hard drives from Cirrus for under $600 in Macworld.
>
>These are rugged SCSI drives, but they were designed for the Mac. Is there any
>reason why they wouldn't work on a gs? and Would a CMS SCSI card do the job?
>Apple's SCSI card is not standard and I'm afrai things may go haywire mixing
>different brands together...
>
>jeremy mereness

Now, hold one a sec. . . None of the SCSI card that go in //'s are
"standard" SCSI. . .  Genereally beacuse they don't use 50 pins, alternating
ground lines on a ribbon cable and using a 50 molex connector (BTW, be
careful rolling your own.  I called and electronics place, giving them and
AMP part number for an IDC50 connector, and she wanted to give me a molex
instead. . .  Totally different. . .), and such.

I suggest that in rolling your own, you stick with Apple's SCSI card.
Mostly because you can A) get the tech ref for it from APDA, and B) it is
actually better at being SCSI standard than the CMS card, or so I hear.
Also, Apple's card supports partitioning *on the disk*, unlike the CMS card,
which does it on the card.

Sean Kamath
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