Subject: Re: Can I use Barracuda LWs in my Mac 8500?
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 10:47:25 MST
Thanks everyone for your responses. I ended up buying the narrow (and
unfortunately more expensive) Barracuda. That's ok... good to know that
the drives are "upwardly usable" if not pin compatible.
Now I can put Yellow Dog and Mac OS 8.X on the same disk drive right?
They can both use the same boot partition, right?
-- John
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Terry Allen wrote:
> Hi John,
> Only 6 weeks ago, I put a 10,000rpm Seagate Cheetah 18GB Ultra 160
> SCSI drive into my 7600, which has a 50 pin interface. The Cheetah Drive
> has a 68 pin connector & I simply installed a 68-50 pin adapter & it was
> picked up straight off by Mac OS 9.1's drive setup, which formatted it
> without a hitch I don't see why you can't use that drive. I'm pretty sure
> that others have.
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