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From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Third-party SCSI drives on Mac II?
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Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 00:46:40 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 12 00:46:40 1987
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Keywords: Mac, SCSI

In article <1110@mtune.ATT.COM> rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) writes:
>While I realize that the machine is still not widely available,
>does anyone have any experience is using an after-market SCSI
>hard disk in the Mac II?

This is a problem for many third party SCSI drives.  I have tried several
with mixed results.

Rodime S20+ (from TriMar USA) and 45M (direct from Rodime) drives both
fail with the II.  The S20+ doesn't even work with the Mac SE.  Both
TriMar and Rodime have promised new drivers but have so far failed to
deliver.

The Mirror MagNet drives (I have the 40/40 tape/disk combo) all work,
but won't boot.  I have to boot off a floppy.  They have also promised
a fix (of course) but again, I haven't received anything yet.

The Jasmine 20 hung the machine so it wouldn't boot off of anything.

I have heard that the CMS 20, 40, and 80Mb drives work well, and
lots of folks on CompuServe seem to love the support they have
gotten.

I am told that the AST-2000 works fine.

That's what I know.  Anyone else have anything to add?

Stew Rubenstein
Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
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