Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!farrier From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Sys Disk 5.0 Files Message-ID: <33234@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 17 Jul 89 20:34:14 GMT References: <33205@apple.Apple.COM> <10398@claris.com> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 14 In article <10398@claris.com> jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk) writes: >This is nice if you like image backups. Unfortunately, image backups are >only useful for the particular model of hard drive you are backing up. Not true. Unless your hard drive uses character i/o or something absurd, you can do block reads and writes. The only specific item needed is the driver for the hard drive, which follows specific call formats anyways. Cary Farrier +------------------------------------+ | #include "All.Standard.Disclaimers"| +------------------------------------+