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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: APPLE HIGH SPEED SCSI Vs Ramfast
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Date: 25 Oct 90 01:56:03 GMT
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In article <1990Oct24.203500.13274@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> rnf@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) writes:
>rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) writes:
>>In article <8101@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>>>	At least in the last info I heard, the RAMFAST only worked with
>>>plain old hard drives.. DIDN'T work with removable SCSI media, whether it
>>>be floptical drives, Syquest based drives, or CD Roms..
>This is not correct.  The RamFast works fine with Syquest drives, I use
>one every day.  What it does NOT do is allow you to change cartridges
>without rebooting.  There is supposedly a ROM upgrade in the works to
>allow this.
>
>If you want to use the drive like a giant floppy then you can't with the
	That's the purpose of a Syquest, giant floppies... I'm most likely
getting one to use one cartridge for backup and one for the main cartridge
so I don't ever have to use floppies except for stuff I use so rarely it's
not worth putting on the cartridge...
>RamFast, yet anyway.  If you just want to be able to use it like a
>regular drive that you can use to boot a particular cartridge or for backing
>up another hard drive, it works fine.

	Ok.. Picky picky...

	Having a Syquest without being able to change drives is like me
giving you a floppy drive and saying you can never switch floppies. 
Whoopie?!  The only use of a Syquest over a standard hard drive is its
removability.. (as Syquest based drives are usually at LEAST a little
bit slower than fast regular hard drives).

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