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Article #2172Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it?
From: Scott Truesdell
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1989 18:16
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1989 18:16
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louis@asterix.drev.dnd.ca (Louis Demers) writes: >> They're essentially all the same, but the difference lies in the >> formatting software and utilities (i.e., the goodies) the manufacturers >> throw in. For example, Mass Micro throws in a whole bunch of stuff that >> makes it highly attractive. > And that means that you can't use the cartriges to exchange data >between owners of different drives. If you settle on on manufacturer, >you should stick with that one. On way to get out of this impass >would be to find a driver/installer that would work on both brands >of drives. I have detected no difference when using cartridges which have been formatted in different OEM'd SyQuests with different drivers. I have exchanged between several different OEM's units. Each cartridge has performed according to which driver was loaded into the Mac. --scott -- Scott Truesdell
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!uci-ics!truesdel From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it? Message-ID: <20300@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 31 Jul 89 18:16:35 GMT References: <9095@venera.isi.edu> <3000@blake.acs.washington.edu> <458@asterix.drev.dnd.ca> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Lines: 22