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Nathan F. Janette writes
   The 3.5 OD drives do seem exciting.  I'm only aware of single-
   sided units that store 128 MB.  If/when they go double-sided
   and can store 256 MB, they would seem to offer all the promise
   of the original NeXT OD - "your world in your pocket", 256 MB -
   with none of the problems - no dust failures, three times as
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   fast, smaller and cheaper disks.

I'm not so sure that I would assume that there would be no problems. I have been using  
PLI's 3.5-inch MO for about 2 months now, and let me tell you, there are quite a few  
problems   but they SEEM to be caused by NeXT's OS: multiple mounted removable cartridges  
(say, SyQuest and MO at the same time) get the system confused such that a disk suddenly  
is no longer recognized (can't even be ejected!), filesystems get corrupted after large  
copies, etc.

I hope that 3.0 has a more robust capability for handling removables, if in fact that is  
where the fault lies. (And I believe it does, since PLI does not supply any software of  
its own, but relies on the NeXT drivers.)


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