>Laurent, >I spoke a little too soon. You can find them at www.smartdisk.com, >VST's site, but they're not in stock. I was pricing the refurb'ed >ones. Just didn't take the time to check availability. >They don't seem to be offering them new. >Oh well. >:-) >At least Jaguar arrived today, I'll try it out tonight. >Best, >Joel Do a google search for them and you're sure to turn a few up, generally close to VST's sale price. I got the 10GB model, as did Gary on this list, for $50 a few months' back. They had a 2nd sale a few weeks' ago, with 18/30 and other GB capacities, but they went quickly (suspect people swamp them and they turn up at ebay for more $$$).
Mine works flawlessly on both Lombard/Pismo in OS 9 and OS X and has 9.1 and 8.6 partitions on it for booting both machines for Disk Warrior and also as a video capture disk. They are generally the older IBM 20GNs, but there is v. little speed difference between these and the newer 4,200rpm drives. Of course, once you have the enclosure (which itself empty costs $119 from MCE), you can put in a 60GB drive if you want. 2 x 60GB and you can have 2x the storage of any TiBook on the planet. I've also seen VST Zip 100s for as little as $19.95, while I think Gary got the Zip 250 + 5 blank disks for $40 from somewhere recently. The SuperDisk 120s are also cheap, if you need a floppy drive as well. Apart from the UJDA Matsushita drives into your Lomb/Pismo enclosure, the retail CDRWs for media bays are expensive, and probably any cheap 24x or faster CDRW droppied into an inexpensive 5.25" FireWire enclosure is probably a better alternative for convenience (and many of the cases are now combo FW/USB 2.0/USB1.1, so you can use them with virtually any Mac made over the last 7 years (except certain PowerBooks, of course). VST have EOL'd the exp. bay line, so get 'em while you can. Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor/News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac <http://www.insanely-great.com> mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RD's PowerBook page: <http://www.macpowerbook.com> -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
