#3000 & Syquest OK?
30-Nov-90 05:08:17
Sb: #7514-#3000 & Syquest OK?
Fm: daniel wolf 70250,626
To: Ethan Solomita 70137,3271
one catch is either having a driver which recognizes cartridge changes
automatically or use of the 'diskchange' command all the time. another is
frequent soft errors on syquest since their cartridge opens up to ambient
atmosphere. heard GVP now recommends Ricoh removable drive since their
cart has an o-ring seal. my problems with syquest were frequent soft
errors. i find having a 330 meg drive is a. cheaper b. more reliable than
a removable drive and equivalent # of cartridges for it at $80-100 per
cart! it's easy to back up a quantum40 to the 330 drive and put lots of
other stuff there too. i can either have all 370 megs on line or
disconnect the power cable from the 330 and keep it 'safe'. rather have
all 330 megs on second drive on line than lying around in 8 carts.