17 Feb
1998
17 Feb
'98
3:58 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Scott Ware wrote:
On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, John Rollins wrote:
That is surprising. No, not that Apple did such a thing, but that
Seagate did not distinguish the model number of the drive with a suffix
letter or different number altogether. Unless Apple, in their 'infinite
wisdom', bought standard drives and just threw away the Seagate logic
board and installed their own.
And if the ProFile is just an ST-506 interface,
does that mean I could just
plug one of my old ST-225's or other ST-506 type drives intoa ProFile card?
Unfortunately, no. The Apple 5MB ProFile uses a Seagate ST-506 mechanism;
however, in the Apple tradition, the Seagate logic board is replaced by an
Apple-designed version with an Apple parallel interface. Since the
heads and stepper motor on the ST-506 are connected directly to the Apple
logic board, replacing the mechanism with anything other than another
ST-506 would be difficult. --
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