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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Interchanging Removable Cartridges
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Date: 18 Mar 91 05:54:02 GMT
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In article <0101000D.a52aea@nan.co.uk>, sw@nan.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin) writes:
> 
> 
> In article <4003@ac.dal.ca>, ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:
> > I've also had good luck moving cartridges between different drives, except for
> > cartridges formatted with SilverLining. I think there's a text file at Sumex
> > which mentions this problem. It's probably in the reports subdirectory.
> 
> I've had no problems reading SL-formatted cartridges (or formatted by any other
> driver) as long as I reboot first. In fact, the SL driver seems to like
> cartridges formatted with other drivers, so if I put in an SL-formatted cart
> first, I can subsequently insert carts formatted by other drivers without
> having to reboot first (I don't have SL by the way; it's just that I sometimes
> get sent SL-formatted carts.)

I format my cartridges with the Mass Micro software, they seem to
work in every drive I've ever tried.

Last week a friend came by and his cartridge, formatted by silver
lining, would not mount on my "noname brand" SyQuest drive.  It did
mount on my Mass Micro drive though...

-- michael

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