Re: compact with Laptop HDD?

2003-12-22 Thread John F. Scipione
Even if it is possible to get the drive to work, it would take a lot of effort, and probably would be a hack in the end. I don't think that the SE/30 can recognize more that a 2GB partition anyway, so you would have to make 4 partitions which is hardly useful. Plus, SCSI to IDE is a hack,

Re: compact with Laptop HDD?

2003-12-22 Thread Darren
John F. Scipione wrote: Even if it is possible to get the drive to work, it would take a lot of effort, and probably would be a hack in the end. I don't think that the SE/30 can recognize more that a 2GB partition anyway, so you would have to make 4 partitions which is hardly useful. Plus,

compact with Laptop HDD?

2003-12-21 Thread Joe
Hi all, I just bought a 8 GB HDD for my lombard, but its too thick to fit inside my laptop, so since I have a BUNCH of compacts, I figured maybe I can stick it inside my SE/30, remove its HDD and put another floppy in it, so it has two floppies and a laptop 8GB HDD in it. First question, what

Re: compact with Laptop HDD?

2003-12-21 Thread Antonio Rodríguez
Hi, Joe! Joe ha escrito: I just bought a 8 GB HDD for my lombard, but its too thick to fit inside my laptop, so since I have a BUNCH of compacts, I figured maybe I can stick it inside my SE/30, remove its HDD and put another floppy in it, so it has two floppies and a laptop 8GB HDD in it.

Re: compact with Laptop HDD?

2003-12-21 Thread Mark Benson
On Dec 21, 2003, at 10:38 pm, Joe wrote: I just bought a 8 GB HDD for my lombard, but its too thick to fit inside my laptop, so since I have a BUNCH of compacts, I figured maybe I can stick it inside my SE/30, remove its HDD and put another floppy in it, so it has two floppies and a laptop 8GB

Re: compact with Laptop HDD?

2003-12-21 Thread Mark Benson
On Dec 21, 2003, at 11:51 pm, Antonio Rodríguez wrote: You do need an SCSI-to-IDE adapter, that's obvious. But, AFAIK there are only external ones - I don't think that there are much people that will be wanting to put an IDE drive inside a computer with a built-in SCSI controller... Yes, you