24 Mar
1999
24 Mar
'99
3:04 p.m.
I picked up an
Apple Harddisk 20SC and an Apple tape backup 40SC today.
Which Apples will these work on? Do you need any specail software or
hardware to use them?
SC means SCSI so will work on mac plus and later. you'll need sw for the TBU.
for hard drive, just set the ID and termination if needed, and go. if the
hard drive is set to boot id, (0, IIRC) and has a system folder, the mac will from it.
'0' is the id Apple traditionally uses for the internal hard drive,
though it doesn't have to be. A Mac can boot from a SCSI HD with and id
setting (eg. I've booted a Mac Plus off a Zip drive, which can only be
set to id 5 or 6). If the hard drive doesn't have a System Folder, you
should be able to just copy one off a boot floppy. This will usually
work, though you'll have a very minimal system.
Tom Owad