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From: shankar@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar)
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Subject: Re: Cartridge/Removable drives?
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Date: 17 Dec 90 19:02:23 GMT
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In article <10167@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:

>	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.

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