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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Syquest 45M Removable & *Dust*
Message-ID: <477@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 90 02:07:58 GMT
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Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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I'd be strongly tempted to get one of the Syquest 45M removables available from
so many different vendors, but I've got one worry.  My environment has become
*extremely* dusty.  I don't know if dust has anything to do with it, but I
ruin about 1 floppy a month.  (First I get errors, then formatting the floppy
fails right at the end.)  How do the Syquests perform in a dusty environment?
Should I worry about this?

I would have *thought* an optical disk would be immune from such problems, but
a buddy of mine with a NeXt gave me the astonishing news that some folks are
getting their optical disk drives practically *ruined* by dust.
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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