>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>site says "no higher than 12.5 mm, and meet apple's power specs. " A trip
>to the Apple site, didn't provide me with the power specs. Anyone know what
>model numbers of the Travelstar drives work in the 2400.
Good point. What IS the power rating of the 2400 drive? (I would
imagine newer drives use less, rather than more power, so this
shouldn't be an issue, but still.)
>Also, I don't understand why the 4 GB SCSI mode limit is an issue. Can I
>install and use bigger than 4 G drives? I see this on the list frequently,
>but it significance is not something I understand.
Sure. As long as you don't want to use SCSI disk mode, which is
limited to drives 4G or smaller. Now, you understand its
significance. <g>
SCSI disk mode lets your PB pretend to be a SCSI drive, so you can
plug it in to another computer as if it were a hard drive. Since i
have networking in all my computers, I don't ever use SCSI disk
mode--it's just as easy to just connect to the disk over the network.
That does, however, mean that in an emergency you need to have a
startup disk of some sort, since you can't network a computer that
won't boot up.
Interesting question time. I've had the 2400 lose its disk driver
*twice* now--trying to boot resulted in a blinking question mark, but
the drive was fine when you booted from something else (a floppy or
Zip.) AFAIK, SCSI disk mode is implemented in hardware, in the ROM.
Will a machine which can't see a drive to boot from it be able to see
a drive to present it to some other computer as if it were a SCSI
disk? If so, SCSI disk mode is actually useful.
I wish I had tested this when the drivers were bad--even if I were
willing to try to reproduce it, I don't have any idea how the drivers
were corrupted in the first place.
~ Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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