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From: chupa@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael A Chupa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Cutting Edge products; 800K drive in particular
Message-ID: <5255@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 7 Dec 89 02:14:56 GMT
References: <89@<AFOIANI> <69900001@inmet> <257DB778.21926@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1169@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: chupa@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael A Chupa)
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In article <1169@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>  Has anybody had any experiences with Cutting Edge products?  Specifically,
>I'm interested in their 800K external floppy drive, which Mac Warehouse carries
>for $149.  This is a terrific price, and I'd like to buy one, assuming that
>it works properly, etc.  It has a one-year warranty, too.  (Are you listening,
>Apple?)

In our school Mac lab, we have several Cutting Edge drives; I have been 
pleased with their quality except for one EXTREMELY bad design flaw.  It 
seems that if a user shuts down the Cro-Magnon way (power switch off, ignore
Special menu) then the drive will not be able to read disks until a disk
is run through an init procedure.  There are several Cro-Magnons around
the lab, and I have learned to keep a supply of dead 400K disks around to
cycle the drives.  You get what you pay for!