Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!ut-sally!ut-ngp!auscso!mentat From: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Making *own* SCSI Hard Drive Message-ID: <93@auscso.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 18:15:30 EDT Article-I.D.: auscso.93 Posted: Thu Jul 16 18:15:30 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 11:17:19 EDT References: <7141@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <230@ttrde.UUCP> Reply-To: mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) Distribution: na Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX Lines: 18 A couple of comments. First, you do NOT want to buy a separate controller board. Seems that if you buy a Seagate drive with an "N" suffix (e.g., ST-255N) you get a built-in SCSI controller. Second, I have a friend who's put one Seatgate 40-megger and two 255N's on his Mac. Apart from having a power supply with too low a wattage (he did not count on having three hard disks when he built the first 255N), he hasn't had any problems. Third, it seems the Seagates are the same drives Apple's using in its HD SC series. Thus,you can use the Apple formatters and utilities on the Seagates. I've heard conflicting information on this, i.e., that Apple uses another brand, but the Apple utilities DO work on the Seagate. No, I haven't built the Seagate--yet. I plan on doing so within a week or so. I'll keep the net informed. -- Robert Dorsett {allegra,seismo}!sally!ngp!walt!mentat University of Texas at Austin {allegra,seismo}!sally!ngp!mentat mentat@ausco.UUCP