Yo compacters everywhere, Spiritus ex Machina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> askz:
>What is the ability of a Mac Classic to support a "large" hard drive? This question amuses me just a bit. Yes, I once had a 500 MB drive in my Classic. Though, while we all like lots of storage, there comes the occassional time when you do diagnostics and clean-up on a drive. Using Norton's 2.0 or most any other disk utility to do a media scan or a defrag/optimizing run takes FOREVER on a large hard drive. A full 2 GB drive in an 8 MHz 68000 processor compact is going to take all weekend to do a full SpeedDisk defrag (unless you do it VERY often). My solution is to install an 80 MB drive internally and save the big drive as an external. At least an external big drive can be SCSI'd to another newer Mac running a later Norton's doing a SpeedDisk run in 5 minutes. 80 MB is a lotta drive for a Classic. Spiritus goes on: >I've got an Apple-branded...labelled as "internal." ... could I, with proper >jumper >settings, use it in an external SCSI enclosure? You betcha: The "Internal" label hints that your drive has its termination resistors in place. Simply remove them and your drive is near ready to go into an external box. Place a jumper on the A0 pair of pins to give it SCSI ID #1. Many Quantum drives will have a jumper already on the "EW" pin pair. I've long lost track of what EW might mean but leave that jumper there. Bung (thanks Stuart) it into your box and you are good to go. Bye the waye, You can leave the termination resistors in place and it will likely work saving you chasing down an external SCSI stub terminator. They even seem to daisy-chain alright with the termination resistors left in place. Let us know how it works. Bill -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
