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From: clubmac@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Australia's Largest Mac Users Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: REMOVABLES TRASHING HARD DISKS ???!!!
Message-ID: <2306@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 25 Sep 90 01:29:11 GMT
References: <9549.26f8a1f0@rsmas.miami.edu> <1990Sep21.140502.8273@ariel.unm.edu>
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In article <1990Sep21.140502.8273@ariel.unm.edu> wilcox@hydra.unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox) writes:
>Well, this is terribly frightful, especially since I had just last night
>finally made a decision to by a DPI Syquest as my backup of choice, over
>a Teac tape system.
 
I'd take the Syquest any day over one of those Teac tape drives... From 
personal experience, I've never been happy with the Teac.

>I'd like to second the plea to hear from others concerning Sysquest
>removeables. Do they trash hard drives? Should I, yet again, re-consider
>by backup decision?

There's nothing wrong with Syquest drives, I've used them with a number of
different hard disks including Rodime, Quantum, Seagate & Imprimis without
any mishaps. I must say, however, that I think there is something screwy with
the Mac II SCSI, and nobody at Apple Australia's tech support could explain
why I only need one terminator at the end of the SCSI chain. e.g.


Mac II ---- Quantum 120S ---- Archive Tape Drive ---- Syquest (terminated)
            (unterminated)      (unterminated)

N.B. Mac II has NO internal SCSI drive.


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