jongleur Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Again, it is has not been tested, but at least this one doesn't have it's data cable hacked off like the first one I bought last month, and yes I've been a slack bastard, and haven't tried out the cable from my spare 400k external floppy drive. HD20s are an exceedingly rare creature here down under, but I've managed to pick up 2 in as many months!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trag Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Very nice. Are you sure that they are rare? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jongleur Posted December 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Yes, I know "rare" is a somewhat overused (abused?) term, especially on eBay, but down here in Australia the HD20 is, shall we say, pretty scarce. I was almost going to pay over US$350 to have one shipped out of the USA, when the first one I bought popped up last month. Hopefully, at least, this one is operational. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
30pin Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 I hope this one will work out for you ! I used to pick up external drives from our Value Village store. I picked up a HD20 and a HD40 @$7.99 each. I bought a TopDrive for the same price. I swapped in a 350mb drive into that one and it sits under my Mac Plus with O.S.7.0.1* on it. It really depends on where you are, when it comes picking up old Mac stuff. The external drives are a nice way to go and they lift the monitor up a bit and can resolve some heat issues. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dennis Nedry Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 jongleur's HD 20s are the floppy port version, not the SCSI version. jongleur, you will have to experiment daisy chaining them if they both work! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheNixer Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 I've daisy chained three of them and they work like a charm. I was reading through an AppleShare Administrator's Guide and it noted you could "attach up to nine hard disks in all - up to two Hard Disk 20's or their equivalent, and up to seven Hard Disk 20SC's or their equivalent" maybe this was just concerning AppleShare. I don't have a HD20 manual. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
agg23 Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 What program is that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheNixer Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 I should have done a desktop shot of all three drives mounted, I may have one somewhere. This screen shot is of Pipe Dream. This is the copy protection where you match pipe parts with a daisy wheel full of pipes. Great game. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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