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From: v6dy@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it?
Summary: Not too impressive as primary drives
Keywords: Crashes
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Date: 31 Jul 89 19:26:04 GMT
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Reply-To: v6dy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (William Scott Middelaer)
Organization: Software Lending Library
              Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca NY
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	We have a PLI 40 Meg removable cartridge drives in our library that 
seems to crash every 3 or 4 months.  It is used to train people in
various applications(Word 4.0, PageMaker 3.01, Excel 1.5, and Hypercard) using
pre-prepared tutorials such as LearnWord and Excellerate.  The drive is on for
about 9 hours daily, and the machine is in used an average of 4 hours a day.

	This drive has been nothing but a headache.  Sure, it is REALLY fast
compared to the Apple HD20 SC in my SE, but it seems to die under regular 
use.  The problems range from mysterious loss of the drives ability to boot
the Mac + it is hooked up to, to a total failure of the drive to be read from
or written on.  Sometimes reinstalling the driver saves the drive, but usually
when it is worse than that we just pull out a new cartridge(we don't pay for 
them, Cornell does), and rebuild the whole drive from floppies.

Will Middelaer
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The opinions expressed in this article are my own, and in no way should be
thought of as those of CIT(Heck, they don't pay me enough to make official
opinions!)