Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: APPLE HIGH SPEED SCSI Vs Ramfast Message-ID: <9010260130.AA06033@apple.com> Date: 26 Oct 90 01:18:19 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 43 On Thu, 25 Oct 90 01:56:03 GMT The Unknown User said: > 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). Well, it's a little better than that. You CAN take out the cartridge and reboot with another... It beets the alternativ of buying another hard drive disconnecting the old and reconnecting the new one. Actually, having the ability to switch cartridges isn't as good as it sounds. I've gat Syquest based Ehman 45meg removable and I have the ability to remove a cartridge without rebooting, but it's a real pain because the system software always asks for the system disk for every nit-picky thing I try to do, so I have to hit the 'eject' button, wait for that cartridge to stop spinning, take it out, put in the 'system' cartridge, wait 15 seconds for it to start up again then tell it that it's there. Then, the operating system asks for the other cartridge again. It's usually several times for each application I want to launch. So, whenever I want to use another cartridge, I just eject the old, and reboot from the new. It's not as practical swapping cartridges as it is swapping floppies. On the other hand, you COULD boot from a floppy, then there wouldn't be the hassle of having to stick in the 'system' cartridge, but then, you're extremely limited to the amount of NDA's CDEV's and CDA's you have installed and if you ever want to do anything with floppies, you have to swap disks again, unless you have more than one 3.5" drive but you're still faced with the NDA problem and the speed (or 'lack of...') with the floppies. Maybe the AE 3.5" 1.44meg drive would make this feesible. Anyway, I just thought you might want to hear what it's like from someone that has already tried it, for your own benefit. >-- >/ Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu \ >\"If cartoons were meant for adults, they'd be on in prime time."-Lisa Simpson/ ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | This is your brain... | BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | | This is your brain on drugs... | pro-line: | | This is your brain on whole wheat.| mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com | |____________________________________|_______________________________|