Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!ncar!boulder!gore!jacob
From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: hard drive info wanted
Message-ID: <130105@gore.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 14:57:05 GMT
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Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
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/ comp.sys.next / haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Haugeland) / Sep 26 '90 /
> What I'm wondering about is the merits/demerits of the following
> alternative. The same Mac sources also all sell an external Syquest
> drive with a 44 mb removable cartridge for around $700, and extra
> cartridges for about $75. [...]
>     Disadvantages:
>      -- Only 150 mb online at a time -- some disk swapping may
>         be necessary on occasion

Well, setting up the Release 2.0 Extended directory tree on a bunch of
these removable cartridges will be tricky.  Are you sure you can get the
auto disk mounter to deal with these cartridges?  If not, you'll have to
keep using mount & umount as root.

Jacob
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