Hey, Pete. Most of the old Apple units had SCSI drives, which are arguably among the most reliable of disk drives. Ironically, the only disk drive I've owned that's ever failed me was a 4 gig Seagate SCSI paired with an identical drive in a RAID 0 configuration. The read/write heads wouldn't budge and the SCSI system wouldn't post past that drive. After considerable mechanical agitation, a low level format was required to recover funtionality. Ouch!
On 4/20/05, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hate to tell you this, but the peripherals, especially drives and such > like, are all the same, I'm running used "Apple" equipment in this PC > even now. > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > At the risk of starting the usual flame war, I have to say I haven't > > had a "stupid computer week" in about 4 years ... that was the week > > that my hard drive failed suddenly, two months from my last backup. > > That was my first system failure since 1985 too. Um ... Apple > > equipment running Mac OS since 1985... > > > > You can hate me too now. ];-) > > > > Godfrey > > > > > > On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:32 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > > > >> I think I hate you... > >> > >> David Oswald wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> Henri Toivonen wrote: > >>> > >>>> Yeah it was stupid computer week here too. > >>>> Last night the computer just rebooted, and when it got back up, > >>>> poof, F: was missing. > >>>> Windows said it wasn't formatted. > >>>> > >>>> Ofcourse that was where I had all my pics, none were backupped. > >>>> Thank god a program called 'GetDataBack' saved my ass, and I got > >>>> all the pics back. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> I've had a "good computer week" here, actually. I just got an HP > >>> Photosmart 8450. Plugged it into a network switch which is in turn > >>> plugged into the router, and presto, it worked just as expected. > >>> The built-in card reader even acts as an external drive, also > >>> network accessable. And the printer's software drivers installed > >>> easily on my two wifi-enabled notebooks. So I can print wirelessly > >>> from my notebooks. I'm even reasonably impressed with the driver > >>> suite. > >>> > >>> Add to that the new 120GB network hard drive. It's similar to those > >>> exernal USB hard drives, but instead plugs into my network. Once > >>> again, right out of the box it works as advertised, and without > >>> giving it any thought. So now the two notebooks can share this > >>> 120GB drive that I'll begin to fill up with images captured with the > >>> *ist-DS. Oh, and burning the images off to CD's has also proven to > >>> be a snap. > >>> > >>> And the HP lives gracefully on the same network as my Canon S820 > >>> printer, which is plugged into a Netgear print server. The S820 has > >>> become my text / casual printer, and the HP8450 gets to be my photo > >>> printer. > >>> > >>> I'm honestly surprised at how easily these three devices integrated > >>> into my home network without any special tweaking. > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com
