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Fairlight III version 9.34 Hard Drive Options

2012-05-11 by greg thurman

I know the standard Hard Drive for the Fairlight III is a Seagate 4 gig drive. I'd like to use a bigger drive is possible. What are the drive options that any of the user's here have successfully used. Hard Drive Make, Model, Pin Selector, etc?

Re: Fairlight III version 9.34 Hard Drive Options

2012-05-22 by dkevefnzs

Greg,

as far as I vaguely remember, there is a limitation regarding the usable disk size in the OS that is either at 4 GB (or even at 2 GB?). And a transfer speed size inherent in the SCSI interface.

So the main advantage from newer drives might be limited to them being more quiet than the old ones; the second one may be shorter seek times when only a portion of the disk is used.

Transfer speed might be limited by the SCSI protocol used rather than by modern disks internal speeds.

Kind regards, Joerg

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