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In article <815529125snx@holly.demon.co.uk>
           mcr@holly.demon.co.uk "Mark Rogers" writes:

>
>Advice on the first two (SCSI and EZ135) appreciated (the rest I know 
>anyway - see .sig :-)
>
>I know sod all about SCSI. Is there a FAQ somewhere I can get hold of to 
>explain it all to me? I know there are all sorts of variations on the 
>theme, but don't know how any of them affect me :-(
>
>As to the Syquest EZ135 - I'm looking at that instead of the Iomega ZIP 
>mainly on the grounds of availability. I understand that it's a faster 
>device, with slightly cheaper media, but that the media is less tolerant 
>(that's possibly an understatement, from what I've heard) to being 
>dropped? Given that one of the uses for the drive will be backups, are 
>they really that bad? 
>
>Given that my attempts at backups so far have been confined to floppies 
>and tape (two tapes, one fails to read back the second I need it, so all 
>confidence in tape lost), the EZ135 *has* to be a vast improvement, yes?
>
>I need to share the EZ135 between two PC's - one is a 486DX4-100 with 
>PCI, the other a 486SX33 with ISA only. My alternative to SCSI would be 
>to add EIDE cards to both (both machines currently support two drives; 
>the SX33 has two drives whereas the DX4-100 has one but is likely to 
>need another adding, but also has an EIDE CD-ROM on a second IDE 
>provided via the sound card) and put an EZ135 in each machine - given the 
>price of the drive and some SCSI interfaces that might not be a bad idea.

I have been using a Syquest drive for about 5 years with several
cartridges, initially as my main hard disk. I had a few bad sectors
develop on the cartridge which was in most use but otherwise no
problems. I must have dropped cartridges a few times but never done
any damage, the cases are very solid plastic. If you want to share
the drive Syquest do a parallel port version.

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Donald Oddy
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