Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jason
From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 45MB removable hard disks
Message-ID: <1178@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 90 11:08:46 GMT
References: <9003101053.AA27254@apple.com>
Reply-To: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak)
Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI
Lines: 28

SOMCYC@NUSVM.BITNET (Chiang Yao Chye) writes:
>Can anyone give a definitive answer on whether those 45MB removable
>hard disks (based on the SyQuest technology) for the Macintosh be
>used on the Apple IIGS with a SCSI card?

	I can - they work, but there are some serious quirks. I'm in the
process of writing a review of sorts, and I'll discuss the quirks in it.

>Presumably, it would work just like another hard disk, but what I
>really want to know is if the cartridges can be mounted and unmounted
>without rebooting?  For example, will the Finder say 'Please insert the
>disk: Cartridge2' when you took it out, just like any floppy disk?
>Does the hard disk driver in GS/OS know there is such a thing called
>a removable hard disk?

	Yes, you can mount and unmount carts in the Finder (it greys the
icons, etc.) and in GS/OS, but, as mentioned, there are some nasty quirks,
and I'll mention those. The SCSI driver does know about removeables - Jason
Harper's DevList program shows the devices as being removeable, for
example. Remember, the //gs supports CD-ROMs, and they're removeable...

>Thanks.

	No problem...
-- 
                      Jason Blochowiak - jason@madnix.UUCP
or, try:         astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jason@spool.cs.wisc.edu
       "Education, like neurosis, begins at home." - Milton R. Saperstein