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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.helsinki.fi!news From: era eriksson <reriksso@cc.helsinki.fi> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Two internal SCSI hard drives in a Mac II? Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Date: 29 Sep 1996 14:25:37 +0200 Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 31 Sender: reriksso@vesuri.helsinki.fi Message-ID: <p20wwxdtsn2.fsf@vesuri.helsinki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: vesuri-ether.helsinki.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.37/Emacs 19.31 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:19322 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4679 I'm thinking about installing MacBSD on my old Mac IIx. I guess having a separate drive for the swap partition would be a very good idea for performance reasons. Luckily, I have an old rusty 80meg internal I hope I could be able to use as a second internal in addition to my main internal hard disk. Is this possible? There is lots of free space in a Mac IIx case, although tips on how to mount a second drive would be most welcome. I expect I need to change the SCSI ID of one of the drives, and buy some funny cable to be able to hook up them both. What kind of cable? Am I likely to need to change e.g. internal termination on one of the drives as well? Does it matter in which order they're connected? Or is all this just wishful thinking, like nothing of the sort is possible? Both drives are standard "Apple" Quantum ones. I expect I'll be able to find necessary technical docs (which jumpers to change etc.) on Quantum's www site once I check what model drives I have; their site looks fairly well-stocked. (For the record, that's http://www.quantum.com/support/menus/diskjmpr.htm). Thanks in advance for any advice, /* era */ Posted to comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage and comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc. Followups to the Mac group, please. I'd appreciate a Cc: too. Thanks. -- See <http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/> for mantra, disclaimer, etc. * If you enjoy getting spam, I'd appreciate it if you'd register yourself at the following URL: <http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/spam.html>