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From: banton@hpirs.HP.COM (Butch Anton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: bare seagate drives
Message-ID: <4780008@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 89 23:33:25 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Well, here's what my situation was:

I had an ancient (s/n 1002) Jasmine DD20 which finally kicked the bucket.  I
didn't want to send the thing back and get it fixed for $250, so I ran down
to JDR Microdevices (they just happen to be right down the street) and picked
up a Segate ST251N for ~$400, and dropped it in the case.  Reformatted with
the older Jasmine software, and I had a 42 MB drive.

If you want to build one from scratch, you'll need to have a power supply for
5 and 12 volts (+-5, +12 I think), a fan, a switch for selecting the SCSI
address, appropriate cabling, and a case (optional, but recommended). 
The technical notes that come with the drive are suitable for figuring out
the kind of switch you'll need for selecting the SCSI address; I don't
remember off hand.

In order to format the puppy and put a driver on it, you should grab one of
the shareware/pd programs for that.  I'm not up on the info.  Anyone care to
comment?

Just as a side note, I think the Rodime 3 1/2" drives that Jasmine uses now
are better drives.  I only say this because they're quieter, take up less
room, and seem to be a little more "stable" than the Seagates.  Just an
opinion.

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