On  5 Feb 98 at 14:48, William Kinsey wrote:

> Has anyone tried the cases that allow you to install a hard drive
> and then use it as an external drive.  I have a couple of small
> hard drives that could be useful to store data if these cases work.
> Any thing pro or con will be welcome.

  I've used these for SCSI devices (hard drives, CD-ROM drives).
There are probably a few EIDE solutions on the market, but those are
likely to be less reliable, I think.
  The cases themselves run about $30-50, plus cable.  I've kept
around a case from an old sub-compact XT clone, and have gotten
together the necessary cables to connect its two drive bays to an
external SCSI connector, but that doesn't provide external access to
change the device IDs (which a commercial case does).  And in the
meantime, I've ugraded to a larger system case ($35, I think) so my
SCSI drives fit in with everything else.

  I'm still using external drive enclosures for a couple of devices
attached to my Mac.

David G


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