it's good for several things, for use with older macs for instance. it's also useful for any one setting up a IIci etc. with openbsd as a firewall for the rest of their machines, i plan to do that myself and will probably use 2 small drives, one for the os and firewall and one for swap and possibly a log partition. there are a lot of useful things that can be done with such a small drive in an older mac, i remember not long ago when getting a 200mb external drive was a big deal to me, of course i was using a mac plus at the time.
likely a newer drive could be put in the case as you mention, assuming the power supply could handle it. the smaller drives also require very little power, i've considered making a portable digital sound recorder with one and using it to capture nature sounds without having to carry too many batteries using an old mac for digital sound recording in something that would be reasonable to carry in a back pack while hiking. i'll probably never get around to building it, but it's a thought. in any case, if someone is building a firewall with an old IIci etc., it would be good for that, or a print server etc. if you don't wind up using it, the platters can be made into atomic mirrors (someone recently did just that), and the magnets inside are very nice rare earth magnets, though you don't want to let them pinch your' fingers. Sean wrote: > > I've got a unique problem. I've got this old 120 MB (yes, MegaByte) > external SCSI drive that I used to have for my old MacClassic way back when. > > I'm wondering about its fate? > > I hate throwing stuff in the land fill. Is there any use for this beast > at all? ----------- -- --S363, aka Philip Stortz-- Find your number at : < http://iharder.sourceforge.net/soundex.php>< http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/08/MN253740.DTL> Maybe the real "criminals" are those who claim to be working in the interest of "National Security", the last refuge of the scoundrel... -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> 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-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
