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From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell)
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Subject: Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it?
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Date: 4 Aug 89 20:47:24 GMT
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ollef@duvan.nada.kth.se (Olle Furberg) writes:

> I don't quite understand: is it possible to have several disks mounted, but
>only one disk station (diskdriver)?

  Not possible with the drivers I've seen. A given platter is either 
  mounted or not mounted.


> All (software) drivers I've seen was rather stupid: you have to mount the
> disk manually through a cdev or DA each time you change disk.

> What sort of software is awailable for those drives?

  Bill Steinberg's FKey "MountEm" is probably the handiest way to mount,
  well, any SCSI device.  Unmounts, too.  I know it's available on
  Compu$erve.  

  The drivers for MicroNet's SyQuest implementation will automount. The 
  Mac must be booted, not necessarily from the cartridge, but with a
  cart on line, for the driver software to be loaded into memory. After
  that, the carts may be unmounted in the normal manner (drag to trash)
  and new carts, after spinning up to speed, will auto-mount.


Goo'bye ev'rybody...   See ya'll at MacWorld Expo!

  --scott
 
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Scott Truesdell