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Re: SyQuest corruption! [was Re: HD Errors]

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 1991 13:52
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In article <140293@pyramid.pyramid.com> telam@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Thomas Elam) writes:
> Then does this mean, for example, that Commodore's A2091 would work
> fine with a Syquest drive and that after each insertion, I would just
> type "diskchange"?  Wouldn't this cause problems if the system asked
> for a particular disk volume (via a standard requestor), and accessed
> the disk as soon as I put it in?

This is totally hypothetical, but since it doesn't know that you've put
the disk in until you type "diskchange" I rather doubt the requestor
would be satisfied by simply inserting the disk.

Alternatively you could use OFS on the Syquest. Does OFS handle the SCSI
diskchange protocol?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: SyQuest corruption! [was Re: HD Errors]
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Date: 8 Jan 91 13:52:09 GMT
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