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From: cs163wfn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Tod Kuykendall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: quick question?   of laser printers disk drives and memory
Summary: Follow up.... re: disk format...
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Date: 6 Feb 91 21:01:52 GMT
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In article <10194@ncar.ucar.edu>, hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) writes:
> In article <16391@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cs163wfn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Tod 
> Kuykendall) writes:
> >    If I have a QMS 810 turbo (roughly NTX clone) and I have a 45 meg
> > removable to do back-ups on can I have it do double duty as both
> > external disk drive for my printer AND as a back-up removable medium
> > for my IIfx?  SCSI switch or what??  All thoughts welcome...
> 
> It is my understanding that a disk drive for the printer is formatted 
> differently than the disk drive for the Mac. So, even if you had a SCSI 
> switch, you couldn't share the drive.
> Herb Poppe             hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu

   Do you mean the disks are formatted differently?  Then if its a
removable can't the disks be switched and a SCSI switch would allow
double duty?  (My experience w/ removables is limited READ:
non-existant...)  Just wondering... I'm trying to set up a system
for someone I know and I was just tryuing to get the most out of
their system and their new back-up removable.  It's my understanding
that a disk connectted to the laser printer simply acts as more
resident fonts for postcript?  More or less to it than that??  
Thanks in advance....
			-tk

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