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From: shankar@haarlem.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Cirrus Hard Drives
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Date: 28 Feb 89 04:09:12 GMT
References: <4Y1Jriy00Uk1A27VJl@andrew.cmu.edu> <11912@reed.UUCP>
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In article <11912@reed.UUCP> kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) writes:
#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.  

Neither are Mac SCSI cards.  Mac SCSI interfaces use the same 25-pin interface
that the Apple II SCSI cards use.  Off course, this doesn't neccessarily mean
that the Cirrus hard drives will work, but in general Mac SCSI drives will
work with the GS - I just purchased a Mirror drive which seems to work 
fine with the GS.


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Subash Shankar             Honeywell Systems & Research Center
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