[ale] Need parts for Multia

[Tom Simpson]

At 09:02 AM 12/6/98 -0500, Vernard Martin wrote:
>>I just picked up one of those DEC Multias off of ebay. I was wondering if
>> anybody could direct me to a source for a 2.5" SCSI-2 notebook harddrive,
>> as this is what my Multia is set up for. BTW, mine is a VX40 with the
>> optional external SCSI-2 conector as well, so I can go external if need be.
>> The OS will, of course, be Linux.  :)
>
>There are very few places that are sellling those scsi drives at a decent
>price. I know that Starship Computer is sellign them and www.onsale.com is
>selling some DEC Multia components as well. You can also try out CPUmicromart
>as they were selling multias a while back. What you are going to find is that
>they don't come in sizes larger than 850MB and they are about 4 times the
cost
>of normal SCSI drives. I strongly recommend that you use an external scsi
hard
>drive instead.



	Oooo-kay. Cant say I'm exactly suprised to hear that. <shrug> Oh, well. It
would have been conveient.


	Man, Starship must realy, realy love their Multia stuff: judging from the
prices, they dont want to part with them.  :) 



>> 	Right now, I have in my possesion an old 420 meg Seagate 50-pin SCSI
>> drive. Can I get an adaptor cable to hook this up to a SCSI-2 port?
>
>Yes you can. They are a little pricey these days as SCSI gets more and more
>popular but you can find those adapters. You can check out GIM computer
over on
>Northside drive. They have a good selection of computer cables and adapters.
>But they are a little on the expensive size as far as pricese are concerned.


	Alas, Northside Dr. is about 200 miles from my house.  :)


>> I also intend to run a NEC 3x external SCSI CD-ROM drive as well. Any link
>> to sellers of older, discontinued and surplus hardware would be
>> appreciated as well.
>
>Check out the Linux General Store (www.linuxgeneralstore.com), the
proprietor,
>Joe Devita, might be able to help you out in this regard. 


	Thanks.


-Tom