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Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
 Posted - 22 Oct 2002 : 08:25:41
It's really worth it to get a 40 or 80MB SCSI drive out of one of your old Macs, and attatch it to the SCSI port on a LWII series printer.you can install printer fonts on it useing Apple's tools rather easily, and ALSO use it to spool the document to be prnted. Put Adobe Acrobat on an SE/30, and it becomes a great PDF printing server thing. Spool the doc to PostScript format and dump it onto ther hard drive and you'll print it ALOT faster. ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie
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Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2002 : 08:32:51
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2038There's Apple's info about it ~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2002 : 11:58:05
Ahh, cool...I've been wondering what to do with my 80MB and 200MB drives...now if only I had an Apple LWII...!  666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2002 : 17:48:29
Don't the LaserWriters require a black terminator?Time to get a 200 Ohm resistor...  ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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ConsoleCowboy
Starting Member
23 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2002 : 18:52:56
Marchie : your link refer to IINTX. Would that work on a IINT (no X) ?:wq |
Marchie
Chaplain
USA
911 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2002 : 19:43:13
just the NTX, f, and g I beleive.. the NT has no SCSI port.~Marchie ~Chaplain Marchie
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mathgeek
Junior Member
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - 23 Oct 2002 : 18:07:17
What a great idea! I too have found strange and wonderful ways of using old drives. Get an old PC case with a lot of drive bays, gut it like a fish leaving only the power supply and fan, then put as many old scsi drives in it as you can. MacAddict's spring 2001 HowTo Macguide gives some good details on doing this.
Once you get all the jumpers set and find a ribbon cable with many connectors you're ready to roll. I've got one with the following in it:
40MB from a discarded Mac II
365MB from a junk pile
540MB from a discarded Mac IIx
850MB from a discarded 6100total cost: $0 If you use it as an external drive on a performa 636 like I do, you can set the SCSI ID jumpers to anything you like (since the performa has an internal IDE drive). Otherwise, 1,2,4,5 and 6 are pretty safe. Once I get AppleRaid off hotline the fun really begins. mathgeek 68K Macs Liberated: LC, Performa 636, Mac Classic II
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 23 Oct 2002 : 18:43:49
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Once I get AppleRaid off hotline the fun really begins.
Unfortunately, a RAID goes by the lowest common denominator, so whatever is the smallest drive in your RAID is the multiplier for the final drive figure. In other words, if you have 7 drives, and all but one are 2GB but the seventh is only 40MB, then your multiplier is 40MB x 7, thus giving you an effective 280MB RAID from waht totals 12.04GB otherwise! This is why you want all the drives to be the same if not nearly the same size. 666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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candyPunk
Full Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2002 : 14:34:43
iWish my LW 4/600 had a SCSI port...I also wish it weren't covered in toner...man, I need one of those air canisters...{ candyPunk }
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 24 Oct 2002 : 14:56:07
quote:
iWish my LW 4/600 had a SCSI port...I also wish it weren't covered in toner...man, I need one of those air canisters...
Be very careful, that toner is highly explosive, IIRC (or has some other dire consequences, IIDRC). You DO NOT want to blow it around or use a standard vacuum cleaner on it, search for the thread about it here. toner+vacuumjt  ™.
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candyPunk
Full Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 25 Oct 2002 : 09:05:50
No, see, I'm going to take the transfer roller out (holding it by the edges, of course) and spray it into the garbage can. A laser printer expert suggested it, so I feel OK about doing it. He seemed to know just about everything about just about every printer. I wouldn't really want to spray into the printer, but it's this one roller{ candyPunk }
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mathgeek
Junior Member
USA
113 Posts |
Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 13:22:57
quote:
In other words, if you have 7 drives, and all but one are 2GB but the seventh is only 40MB, then your multiplier is 40MB x 7, thus giving you an effective 280MB RAID from waht totals 12.04GB otherwise!
From what I was reading on the SoftRaid website (SoftRaid was spawned from AppleRaid) I can make a 40 MB partition on the other drives and this set will act as a single raid. So in the scenario you describe, I would get two raid arrays, one that is 7x40=280MB and one that is 6x(2048-40)=11.77GB. SoftRaid also allows you to make raids from multiple SCSI buses. So for a desktop G3, (which has separate internal and external SCSI buses and which I recently got for free!) I can have internal drives combined with the 7 external ones. Of course there's no real point to any of this. It just seems like something fun to try. mathgeek 68K Macs Liberated: LC, Performa 636, Mac Classic II
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alpaca2500
Junior Member
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 18:45:07
quote:
Once I get AppleRaid off hotline the fun really begins.
*wondering if i can make a RAID out of the 2 20 meg drives in my SE* --
Performa 630
LCIII
SE |
Don't throw out that 40MB drive...
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