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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: syquest hard drive
Message-ID: <05935.AA05935@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 29 Jan 91 19:49:10 GMT
References: <10524@ge-dab.ge.com> <2249@tmiuv0.uucp>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <2249@tmiuv0.uucp>, rick@tmiuv0.uucp writes:

>> 3> How is it to use
> 3> When you change disks, you'll have to "DiskChange" the
>    drive.  I'm not sure if 2.0 supports FFS on removable
>    media (no, wait, it does, since you can have FFS
>    floppies), but most of the SCSI interfaces don't
>    support a "media has been changed" signal like floppies
>    do.

GVP's SCSI software supports automatic DiskChange for
removable media under both OFS and FFS (1.2, 1.3 and 2.0).

>> 5> Can you recommend a better buy
> 5> I think IOmega has a Bernoulli box which is SCSI-based
>    now.  Whether it's a better buy, I don't know.  It's a
>    subjective call.

The 20 and 40 meg Bernoullis I know of are slightly slower
than the SyQuest, but they appear to be much more reliable.
You may also want to give the 40 meg Ricoh drive a try.

Ralph