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From: sanders@parc.xerox.com (Rex Sanders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Syquest Drives
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Date: 9 Jan 91 17:54:37 GMT
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okamoto@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto) writes:
>...  I am still unsure of which drive to
>purchase.  On the one hand, BMUG recommends DPI's drive, yet it has
>internal termination (and the person I called didn't know if it could
>be converted to external termination.

With a Swiss Army Knife and a call to DPI tech support, I removed internal
termination in 1-2 minutes.  Then you plug in external terminator.
With practice (and better tools), I can do this in less than 1 minute.

>On the other hand, MacUser recommends Mac Products Magic 45 (and the
>Hammer drive, but that's WAY too expensive), yet it doesn't seem to
>have any diagnostic software, and that makes me a bit uneasy.
>
>> People interested in these drives should also check out the article
>> in the February MacUser (pp 206-230).

Compare MacUser's text recommendations to the individual ratings in the
charts.  Why are some drives (like DPI's) rated higher in the charts than
the text ratings?

-- Rex