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Here are some more questions from a total Mac novice -- with a lot of
faith: I bought a IIci. Now I badly need to put a hard drive in it: I did
not buy it as a package because I decided I could do better from a third
party. Now I have looked around enough that I am quite confused.

-Is there any reason that a drive that works in a IIcx should not work in a
 IIci? If an ad says it's a drive for a IIcx, can I just assume the ad has
 not been updated to reflect the newer model's appearance?

-Should I prefer a 3.5" drive over a 5.35" drive for any reason (or for
 that matter, the other way round)?

-Does the software that comes with the drive (if any) matter? Ie do
 specific drives come with their own drivers, and should I be careful that
 I get a 'good' driver, or are they the kind of thing you plug in and up
 pops the icon? If not, can I buy a cheap drive for it somewhere with a
 lousy driver and a better driver from somewhere else?

-If I put a 3.5" drive in the Mac now, can I put another internal drive in
 later? I opened up a IIx with an internal 5.25" drive, and it looks like
 in its place I could put a couple of 3.25"... does this seem really silly?
 Would it melt the power supply? Can that be beefed up, if I decided to put
 2 drives in? One of the reasons that comes to mind for disliking external
 drives is that I expect my Mac to go to Europe at times, and whereas it is
 "power sensing" (universal voltage/mains frequency) external drives may
 not be. Also, there is a question of compactness -- that's what the 'c' is
 all about in the IIc_ series, I think.

Anything you can tell me about your drive, or a supplier would be welcome.
Thanks,
Carlo.

PS -- followups to comp.sys.mac.hardware.

carlo@cvs.rochester.edu

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