In a message dated 3/20/00 1:41:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Hello, my name is Nick and I've been a kind-of Lurker for 3 weeks.
...which is to say I sent a message early on asking about system versions for
my Duo 270c and then never even said thanks to those who replied, so, THANK
YOU for that! I'm still at 7.1 partly because I have a slightly unreliable
FDD for this machine, no dock system, and do not want to risk leaving myself
with an un-bootable Duo.
I'd like to ask another question though - how easy is it to get hold of SCSI
disks that will fit in one of these, and what is the biggest disk made for
them? Am I right in thinking that most later Apple portables went to IDE
instead? It would be nice to upgrade this machine as far as it will go.
best wishes,
Nick Daisley
Oxford, UK >>
Hello Nick...
as far as I know, the largest disc made for scsi in a laptop is 1.3
gig....and you are correct, that any power pc laptop uses IDE drives, and
only the 2300c can handle both! which really is amazing that they didn't
develop that concept for more laptops. It would have helped some of us use
our older drives in newer laptops.
the other option for making use of a used laptop drive is to purchase an
external hard drive case that plugs into the scsi port, but YES, you'd still
need a dock or a scsi minidock for this.
good luck
Alan
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