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4 total messages Started by Gianfranco Ciardo Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:07
Can a Station live without an internal drive?
#1534
Author: Gianfranco Ciardo
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:07
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I should receive a NeXTStation Turbo B/W 8/250 within days, and I
am thinking to buy an external DAT (Archive Python) and a large HD
(Fujitsu 3.5" 2694 1.2 Gig).

I am also thinking to pull out the original 250 and sell it on the
net to recoup some cash, but, for variuos reasons, I would like to
keep the Fujitsu in the external enclosure, not in the the Station.
The difference in price between the enclosure for the DAT only and
the enclosure for the DAT and the HD is only $25, and the extra
flexibility is worth it (to me).

Is this possible?  Reasonable? Advisable?

-- Gianfranco Ciardo

PS
Does anybody want to buy a more-than-new (it's not even here yet!) 250 HD? :-)
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-- Gianfranco Ciardo
Re: Can a Station live without an internal drive?
#1540
Author: Avery Wang
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:34
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In article <1993Jan25.230703.25813@cs.wm.edu> ciardo@cs.wm.edu (Gianfranco  
Ciardo) writes:
> 
> I am also thinking to pull out the original 250 and sell it on the
> net to recoup some cash, but, for variuos reasons, I would like to
> keep the Fujitsu in the external enclosure, not in the the Station.
> The difference in price between the enclosure for the DAT only and
> the enclosure for the DAT and the HD is only $25, and the extra
> flexibility is worth it (to me).
> 
> Is this possible?  Reasonable? Advisable?
> 


Totally possible and straightforward.  And if you hide your external  
underneath a pile of books and other mufflers, it will be amazingly quiet!

-Avery
Re: Can a Station live without an internal drive?
#1567
Author: Heiko W.Rupp
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:41
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ciardo@cs.wm.edu (Gianfranco Ciardo) writes:
>keep the Fujitsu in the external enclosure, not in the the Station.
>Is this possible?  Reasonable? Advisable?

Yes, null problemo.
-- 
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As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" -- probably because it's
so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
		-- Woody Allen
Re: Can a Station live without an internal drive?
#1581
Author: Daren Patel
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:50
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In article <1993Jan25.230703.25813@cs.wm.edu> ciardo@cs.wm.edu (Gianfranco Ciardo) writes:
>
>I am also thinking to pull out the original 250 and sell it on the
>net to recoup some cash, but, for variuos reasons, I would like to
>keep the Fujitsu in the external enclosure, not in the the Station.

	Yes, you can do this.  Here's what you need to do:  (1) Set up the
external drive and make sure you're booting from this drive. (2) Take out the
internal drive and put the cables, screws, etc. in a safe place where you can
find them if you need them later. (3) Now, you'll need a SCSI ribbon cable
like the one that was in there originally.  Cut one end off of this cable and
put a fifty-pin Centronics SCSI connector on the cut end.  (4)  Buy a
Macintosh SCSI terminator and attach it to the Centronics connector on the
SCSI ribbon cable.  (5)  Now, attach the female fifty-pin end of the SCSI
ribbon cable to the double row SCSI pins on the mother board.  You can tape
this down to the empty space when the internal drive used to be.  This worked
for me, but I can't guaranty the results for anybody else.  Your machine should
boot from the external drive now without any problems.  I also hear that
you can buy an internal SCSI terminator so you don't need the contraption
described above, but I was unable to find anyone that sold them.  Hope it works
for you...


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