Subject: Re: RAM and drive for Multia?
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: 'Wilko Bulte' <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/13/2002 19:49:54
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:55:28PM -0500, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> > ----------
> > From: Wilko Bulte
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:21:37PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > I found several Multias for sale without memory and drives.
> > >
> > > I was told that they need parity RAM and some sort of proprietary SCSI
> > > drive.
> >
> > Yes, you need 36 bit FPM SIMMs. The SCSI drive is not proprietary. It is
> > however, a 2.5" disk (if you want to stick it in the Multia itself).
> >
> > --
> I seem to remember someone once saying that some older Apple
> PowerBook laptops used the 2.5" SCSI hard drives...
Yep, that is correct. Personally I would not bother putting it inside.
I think the PB drives were pretty small in size too.
--
| / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands