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From: Q3885@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Immordino Phillip M.)
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Subject: Re: SCSI DISKS
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Date: 21 Mar 89 23:48:31 GMT
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In article <312@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>, jami@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (jami montgomery) writes:

>Did anyone see the posting of some HARD DISK drive for sale at
>a dirt cheap prices. The drives were from NEWBURY. They had some
>SCSI DRIVES for what I thought was a great price with a 1yr. warranty.
>What I like to Know is will any of those SCSI DRIVES work with the NeXT
>If the cube uses a SCSI adapter then the DIRVES should work, right or wrong?

   Yes, you are correct to a certain extent.  I have not ever put another brand
 (NeXT uses Maxtor) in a NeXT machine, but it should work.  In fact I attended
 a NeXT service repair camp in Santa Clara, CA sometime in January and was told
 that they had tested Macintosh SCSI hard drives and found no problems.
 (Apple uses Seagate, Rodime and Miniscribe hard drives).
 They hooked them up using Apple SCSI port to external SC drive cable.
 You are probably going to mount internally, so you will need a ??-pin ribbon
 cable (available from apple and others).  Make sure that if the drive is
 mounted internally that is fully terminated and set fro SCSI select 0.
 You might want to wait until 0.9 software release comes out.  I believe it
 has better SCSI support.  This is just in case you run into any problems.

 (More notes on 0.9)
    NeXT is going to offer support for non-next laser printers
    It should be out in May 89.

                                                  Phil Immordino
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