Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!olivea!apple!agate!ucbvax!pro-beagle.cts.com!lhaider From: lhaider@pro-beagle.cts.com (Laer Haider) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Cartridge/Removable drives? Message-ID: <26988.chatter.infoapple@pro-beagle> Date: 19 Dec 90 04:35:18 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: message from shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM >>I'll figure something out... >> My goal is to have one cartridge for main use, and one as a >>backup cartridge... > >If I read this correctly, and you intend to back up one cartridge to >another (as opposed to backing up a regular drive to cartridge) this >isn't particularly enjoyable. My cartridge drive takes about 20-30 >seconds each for spinning down and up. So, you can count on at least >1 minute for each cartridge swap. Floppies are a lot faster even with >the slower access. The ideal setup would be to have 2 44MB cartridge drives in one box. Duel drives. This way you have 88 MB on line with the option of doing a disk to disk backup to other cartridges. I got my 105MB Toshiba and will be happy with that until the 20MB floptical drives come out. That will make my backups and misc. data storage a helluva lot nicer. Anyone got any info on the progress in marketing these little wonders? / \ / / ______________________________________________________ \\\' , / // ProLine: pro-beagle!lhaider \\\//, _/ //, INET: lhaider@pro-beagle.cts.com \_-//' / //<, /\\ UUCP: crash!pro-beagle!lhaider \ /// > \\\`__/_ ///\\\\ /,)-^>> _\` \\\ ////\\\\\ The opinions expressed here belong to (/ \\ /\\\ // IIgs \\\ no entity(s), living or dead! // _//\\\\ ------------------------------------------------------ ((` ((