Toshiba MK-538FB, any experience?

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2 total messages Started by Lily Liou Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:09

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Author: Lily Liou
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:09

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Well, in my search for a reliable, inexpensive, easy
to use hard drive, I've come across several glowing
recommendations for the Toshiba MK-538FB, which is
a 3.5" hard drive that's extremely fast, seems to
be very reliable, and *formats* to 1.2GB.  All for
the price of ~$1400 by mail.  
So, my natural question is, has anyone here had any
experiences setting one of these up to run on a
NeXT?  Is it plug and play?  Does it require hacking
to get NeXTStep to recognize it?  (2.2 or 3.0?)  My
information source uses it on a 486-50 and is totally
satisfied with its performance.
Anyone who wants more info on how to get the product
can e-mail me.
Any comments on whether this device runs with a NeXT
and how much work it takes to set up will be appreciated.
Thank you!

-Lily Liou
lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu

Re: Toshiba MK-538FB, any experience?

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Author: Helmut Heller
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:04

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In article <43311@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> lliou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Lily Liou ) writes:
> Toshiba MK-538FB
> Any comments on whether this device runs with a NeXT
> and how much work it takes to set up will be appreciated.

I have this drive as an external SCSI drive on my NeXTstation Turbo and it  
was plug and play! No problem at all and it works just great!

Here is how much memory you get if you format it as a NeXT drive:
/dev/sd1a            1175379  342694  715147    32%    /albino

I am all for it, no minuses!

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