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From: blenko-tom@CS.YALE.EDU (Tom Blenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: removable media drives -- MicroTech OK?
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Date: 12 Dec 89 18:37:48 GMT
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In article <17967@netnews.upenn.edu> sheinfel@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Aviad Sheinfeld) writes:
|In article <HALEDEN.GNUS1@ganglion.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET> haleden@ganglion.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET (Hal Eden) writes:
|>Re: MicroTech R45 removable media drives
|>
|I have a MicroTech R45 and am very pleased with its performance, other than
|a "minor" conflict as to who is the start-up drive between it and my internal
|hard disk.

I have a MicroTech R45 which is about a month old and has had
persistent reliability problems.  Bad blocks show up at different times
-- sometimes they spontaneously disappear, sometimes I've had to
reformat the disk.  This has occurred with two removable disks.
MicroTech says the first disk checks out OK for them. They now have the
drive (which I think is where the problem is).  The upshot is that the
drive simply isn't reliable yet (and I've spent many, many hours doing
backups).

Fortunately, they're only a 15-minute drive from where I live.

	Tom