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jochoo@haven.uniserve.com (Jones Choo) wrote:

>In article <4cgml0$ijv@comet.magicnet.net>, johna@magicnet.net 
>says...
>>
>>In article <4ceqj1$bef@shore.shore.net>, ay@warpsoft.com 
>(Albert Yarusso) says:
>>>
>>>I just picked up a ZIP drive and although it'd be nice to have 
>the
>>>speed of the SCSI version, I couldn't even consider it because 
[snip]
>
>
>I ditto (No pun intended, sorry IOmega!) Mr. Anderson's 
>kudos. After deciding on the need for high capacity removable 
>storage, I waged this same debate in my mind. I decided to go 
>with the EZ135 IDE for its speed. I replaced my 2nd Hard Drive 
>with it and was so happy that I recently switched it over to 
>being my Master Drive. I'm now booting off it. It behaves 
>just like another Hard Drive. The advantage being that I can now 
>run different configations with a simple cartridge change. I can 
>now run perfectly optimized setups of WFW 3.11, Win95 and DOS 
>with no trade offs. Doom with Maximum XMS and every add-in I've 
>got with megabytes to spare on one cartridge. Lotus 123 DOS with 
>all my flight sims booting up into maximum EMS on another 
>cartidge. It seems like I've got 5 different computers now. I'm 
>thinking of playing around with Unix soon. Glory be! I can 
>isolate the whole thing on one bootable cartidge. If I had gone 
>with the Zip, I don't think I could do what I'm doing now with 
>the same performance. As for durability, I realize that inside 
>a EZ cartidge is a Hard Disk platter and I don't chuck it 
>around like a floppy. An added bonus is that my GSI IDE 
>controller card has built in support for Syquest drives.
>
>Now a plea for help!
>I've lost the ability to boot from a floppy. When I try, it gets 
>to as far as "Starting MS DOS" then the system locks up with the 
>floppy drive light still on. I have tried with different boot 
>floppies and even the original DOS distribution disk with the 
>same result. All the boot disks boot my notebook OK. The CMOS 
>setup is OK. The POST report nothing. All my diag programs 
>report no problems except MSD which locks up my system. So 
>does MS Editor, Scandisk and Defrag. When MS Editor and MSD are 
>run from Windows they work fine. When it locks up and I reboot 
>from the Hard Drive the system can't find my mouse. I wait a 
>minute and cold reboot from Hard Drive, it boots fine. The 
>floppy works fine otherwise. I can install programs from it and 
>copy to/from it. Wierd stuff. Anyone got any ideas.
>
>Happy New Year!
>

Have to agree with you.  I have WIN 95 on a Syquest disk, workfiles on
another, and files I need instant access to on another.  As soon as
another cartridge get in, I will have linux running on it so I can
move my linux system from home to work.


Wes Szumera
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