[rescue] Apple 2GB Quantum Fireball ST SCSI HD

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Wed Aug 6 20:28:18 CDT 2008


Carl R. Friend wrote:
>    On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Curious George wrote:
> 
>> Are these ["little drives" something] that I should be "putting
>> aside" in the future?
> 
>    Actually, yes.  As we "progress" farther and farther into the
> future, the technology that will allow us to keep our "elder
> hardware" alive will become increasingly rare -- and it's not a
> technology that we can either fabricate or fake.  So, for the
> owners of, say, MicroVAXen (which have a disk-drive size limit
> of one gig due to firmware issues) tiny drives are a critical
> asset to have in the "spares bin".
> 

Couldn't you use a SCSI to IDE adapter, paired with a CompactFlash to 
IDE adapter, in combination with a 1GB CF card?

--Patrick



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