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>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:46:08 -0600
>Subject: Re: PB 190 SCSI attachment to 6320
>From: Dan Palka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>on 3/31/03 6:01 PM, jimwg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Can anyone recommend a low-cost (i.e. cheap) source of a SCSI
>> port cable/plug for my PB 190cs to mate with a 6320? Thanks!
>
>Just be sure you're hard drive isn't 2.0gb or over on the 190 or you'll have
>some serious trouble.
Hi Dan:
Please explain your welcome concerns. My set-up has worked
superbly so far. Norton Disk Doctor and Tech Tools seem happy with it
too. I can finally unstuff all my document files from archive
prisons! My sole complaint is having to use file sharing via the
printer to backup my 6320 by. So slowwwww!!!!!!
A question techie hackers: I'm just musing (nothing I'd do
myself), but _technically_, is there some hardware way to use the
floppy disk's data channel to bypass file sharing via printer port as
a far faster method?
>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:51:18 -0600
>Subject: Re: PB 190 HD size puzzle
>From: Dan Palka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Wow I've never met another person who has a large hard drive in a 190! YAY
>I'm not alone. Alas my hard drive is only 5gb, I envy you! I wish my 190cs
>had a 30gb hard drive.
>
>Do not use SCSI disk mode with this computer, though. There is a known
>issue with large hard drives in the 190 that causes file corruption on its
>unsuspecting host computer (I found out the hard way, and lost everything on
>my Quadra 800 after connecting it to the 190 through SCSI disk mode). And
>that would completely defy the point of using the 190 as a backup in the
>first place :)
>
>Also, the 190 will not be able to boot from an HFS+ drive, although if you
>partition the disk with a small HFS partition, put the system folder on
>that, and make the rest HFS+ I don't see why that wouldn't work.
>
Using a PB 190 is a cheap and workable 6320 backup solution
for me. I foolishly tried to be tip-of-the-spear state-of-the-art
three years ago by buying a Orb drive which died a few weeks outside
the warranty and Castlewood wanted $107 just to look at it. Screw
them. So I got defunct $239 Orb drive and 7 $35/per cartridges
holding data hostage (happily most which I could reproduce. No more
Syquest-related ANYTHING for me!) The 30 gig Travelstar cost me
$65.00 and the PB was a pass-along, so for $65.00 I got not only a
new backup device but a whole backup and portable computer in the
mix, so I couldn't be more content with what I've got to work with.
No Zip or CD ROM drive backups for me! As I said my only lament is
having to use file sharing via the printer port. It took four whole
nights for my initial 6320 to 190 backup by using Synk (I have
CopyAgent but it's a dog in flexibility and speed), but now Synk
backs up only my new changed files nightly. Takes around an hour. If
anyone has any neat file sharing speed-up tricks please share them!!
About the boot: Since my 190 has 32 megs RAM, I have the OS
7.5.2 Powerbook Disk Tools boot disk installed on a tiny RAM disk as
an emergency fallback which automatically boots up if anything
catastrophic happens with the main OS 8.1 hard disk (I "tested" it).
Too bad a RAM disk for OS 8.1 would be too large because I'd love to
convert my Travelstar into a HFS+ disk!
JimWG
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