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Article #15Re: Forget ZIP drives!! Look at Syquest EZ-Drive
From: Roger P. Ang
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 01:46
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 01:46
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.90.950831094013.17379C-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com>,
Classic Concepts <ladyhawk@jobe.shell.portal.com> wrote:
>I noticed one poster suggesting
>the case could be removed and the drive installed inside a machine in a
>floppy slot.
That was me. WARNING: the case is really tricky to remove, so I don't
recommend this. But the drive does appear to be the size (and have
the mounting points) of a standard 3.5" drive.
>Don't know if carts can be write protected.
Yes, the cartridges have a physical write protection switch. Here's
some more info. EZ Disk cartridges roughly measure 3 7/8" x 3 7/8" x
3/8" (so they're not really 3.5"). On the underside there's a
rotating switch for write protection. I formatted one to 121MB.
Quick tests showed read rates of 1.8MB/s (NOTE: I'm using SCSI-1 and
get 1.9MB/s with my regular drive, a Quantum 540).
Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
Irvine? Where's Irvine? Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain. Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool. Univ. of California, Irvine. USA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!paris.ics.uci.edu!not-for-mail From: rang@europa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang) Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.mac-specific.misc,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.next.marketplace Subject: Re: Forget ZIP drives!! Look at Syquest EZ-Drive Date: 2 Sep 1995 18:46:29 -0700 Organization: UC Irvine, Department of ICS Message-ID: <42b1dl$sbd@europa.ics.uci.edu> References: <420s8s$go6@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4231ea$4rs@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <Pine.SUN.3.90.950831094013.17379C-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com> Reply-To: rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang) NNTP-Posting-Host: europa.ics.uci.edu