On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT), Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com> wrote:
>I am confused by this! The MacPortable FAQ says
that the drive is a
>40meg SCSI with a (typically Apple) proprietary interface of 34-pins.
>But the Pocket PCRef list the CP3045 as an AT/IDE drive. Is that a typo
>in the PCRef?
Could be a typo in the PCRef. The drive is labeled CP-3045 (with no
suffix character, i.e., A for ATAPI or S for SCSI). It is Apple-labeled and
has an Adaptec-based SCSI controller. Could have Apple taken a stock CP hard
drive and grafted a different controller card onto it? The interface from
the drive hardware to the drive electronics seems to be standard (i.e., an
18-pin pin-header interface), so maybe Apple swapped controllers. It does
have a proprietary SCSI pin-out, though, for which an adapter is available
to connect a sdandard SCSI drive to the portable.
Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com>
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