[Duo2400] need some drive tech help

Paul Nelson artworks at victoria.tc.ca
Sat Dec 28 13:45:29 PST 2002


>  I have recently come into possession of a neat, almost new APS
>external hard drive case, apparently made for PowerBooks/Laptops.
>
>If you are familiar with the wonderful product line by Applied
>Peripherals Systems (APS) you know the craftsmanship and
>indestructibility built into these cases.
>
>This case is the standard PowerBook "gray"; it is smaller than the usual
>external case (9"x 6" x 1.5") for portability; it only has one (vice the
>usual 2) 50-pin SCSI port on the back and comes with a 110v to 9v
>transformer/power adapter.
>
>I knew it was smaller than the regular cases, but I figured they had
>engineered it so that I could simply drop one of the many Quantum or
>Seagate SCSI drives I use to upgrade the regular external cases. Not so.
>When I opened the case, I found it did not look at all like the standard
>cases. There could be, but there is not room enough to put a "standard"
>3.5 drive in there, not to mention the wiring is not what I am used to
>either. The SCSI connector is a 50-pin, but somewhat smaller than the
>standard internal connector, so I might have to find a connector too.


	Find a 2.5 SCSI hard drive.  It's not hard to find, either on ebay
or from the swap list.
Paul




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