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A couple of comments.  First, you do NOT want to buy a separate controller
board.  Seems that if you buy a Seagate drive with an "N" suffix (e.g., 
ST-255N) you get a built-in SCSI controller.  Second, I have a friend who's
put one Seatgate 40-megger and two 255N's on his Mac.  Apart from having a 
power supply with too low a wattage (he did not count on having three hard
disks when he built the first 255N), he hasn't had any problems.  Third, it
seems the Seagates are the same drives Apple's using in its HD SC series.  Thus,you can use the Apple formatters and utilities on the Seagates.  I've heard 
conflicting information on this, i.e., that Apple uses another brand, but the
Apple utilities DO work on the Seagate.

No, I haven't built the Seagate--yet.  I plan on doing so within a week or
so.  I'll keep the net informed.

 
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