Internal hard disk -> Internal hard disk copy on IIci question

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2 total messages Started by William Stocker Tue, 11 Dec 1990 20:32

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Author: William Stocker
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 20:32

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I'd like to get a new, higher capacity internal hard disk for may Mac IIci.
Is it possible to have both the new and the old drives hooked up at the same
time so I can transfer the data from my old drive before I sell it?  Or am
I going to have to buy 100 floppies?  If possible, how hard is the procedure
(ie what are my chances of frying my computer)?  I'm fairly mechanically
inclined; installing more RAM was child's play...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

--Will

Re: Internal hard disk -> Internal hard disk copy on IIci question

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Author: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 1990 16:02

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In article <1990Dec11.203219.3611@Neon.Stanford.EDU> stocker@Neon.Stanford.EDU (William Stocker) writes:
>I'd like to get a new, higher capacity internal hard disk for may Mac IIci.
>Is it possible to have both the new and the old drives hooked up at the same
>time so I can transfer the data from my old drive before I sell it?  Or am
>I going to have to buy 100 floppies?  If possible, how hard is the procedure
>(ie what are my chances of frying my computer)?  I'm fairly mechanically
>inclined; installing more RAM was child's play...

You need a power supply Y Cable, and a 3-connector 50-pin ribbon cable.  
The power supply Y can be found anywhere. Then you make sure the SCSI
IDs are differnt (may need a jumper or two for this), connect the two drives
and the mac to the 3-connector ribbon cable (where the 2-connector one is now),
connect the power up, and things should work fine, except your disk is
probably not in a particularly stable (mechanically) position.

What I did when I wanted to connect two internal drives together, though, is
I used an external drive enclosure, took the drive that was in there out,
put the new internal in there, and transferred the info.  Then I put the
original drive back.  Obviously, this is only an option if you have an external
drive around.

I don't know what the power budget of the Mac IIci is-- I know the IIci can
take some of the big (power hungry) Wrens inside, so as long as neither drive
is one of those, you are probably safe.

--
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
     .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.

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