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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SyQuest 44MB removable in PC-compatible
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.020540.23233@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 91 02:05:40 GMT
References: <412@beagle.UUCP>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <412@beagle.UUCP>, by chandler@beagle.UUCP (Jim Chandler):
> I am using an Adaptec 1542A with a SyQuest 555 and have have no problems with
> it either under ESIX or under DOS. SyQuest has drivers for DOS so that it 
> recognizes the removable media but I have never used it.  I use the Syquest
> to back up my 330M drive and it works fairly well.  Kind of like swapping
> floppies but 44 M at a time.  I got mine from HDI about 5 months ago and paid
> about that.  Good luck with it.

My SyQuest is using the ST01 SCSI controller that comes with the SyQuest.
The cable seems to indicate that I can put another SCSI device on the
same board.  Could I just get any old SCSI fixed hard disk and pop
it onto the ST01?  I mean, like a cheap $300 80MB seagate SCSI hard disk?

Also, could the SyQuest cartridge be used on the same based units but of
different controller?  Like can my cartridge written with the ST01 controller
be read by Chandler's Adaptec 1542A controller, even though the
drive based unit is the same type (I assumed)?

Has any SyQuest user shipped their cartridges thru regular UPS?  How
much physical cushioning materials do you need?  Anybody tried the
airport X-ray machine?  

I divided my SyQuest into 22MB/22MB drives, is there any way to actually
make it a 44MB drive using DOS 3.3?  I am using the driver provided by
SyQuest. 

Thanks (x4) in advance.

E. Teng Ong (ong@d.cs.okstate.edu)