new 2.1 packages

John Klos <johnziaspace.com> wrote: 
> You can get inexpensive 50 gig SCA Seagates for around
$30 online 

I thought SCA was the Society for Creative Anachronism.  I
guess that does fit with running a modern OS like NetBSD on
68k Macs, though.  

> (froogle, for instance). Or, if you want more space,
you can get an Acard 
> SCSI-IDE adapter and whatever size IDE hard drive you
like. I have a 500 
> gig hard drive in my Amiga 1200, for instance.

Good grief!  That's bigger than I have in _any_ of my
computers!  Do a few bulk builds, do you?    But I
thought SCSI-IDE converters were fairly expensive in their
own right.  What about those 68-50 pin SCSI converters, are
they reliable?  Occasionally I get 68-pin SCSI drives that I
can't use in my Macs.  For that matter, I'd need
converters for SCA drives too.  I don't have that kind of
money to dump into a hobby.


Tim
-- 
Tim & Alethea

At 16:38 Uhr -0400 3.8.2006, <thelarsons3cox.net> wrote:
>What about those 68-50 pin SCSI converters, are they
reliable?

If they terminate the upper 8 bits of the disk-side bus
properly, they are.
I have a wide 4G IBM disk running here on a Q700 that never
made any
problems (apart from the noise...)

	hauke

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