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From: arun@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Cutting Edge products; 800K drive in particular
Message-ID: <1005@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 10 Dec 89 00:37:35 GMT
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Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <5255@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, chupa@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael A Chupa) writes:
> 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!


I have not seen any such problem with my Mirror Technologies 800K drive. I 
feel that it is a much better, smaller, quieter, more reliable, better
looking, and just as cheap unit...

                        >>>ARUN MATHUR<<<
                Dalhousie University Medical School
                  Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada...