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From: burchil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Andrew Burchill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 7.0 VM On a SyQuest: How??
Keywords: Help
Message-ID: <1991May17.194226.27421@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 17 May 91 19:42:26 GMT
References: <5786@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Lines: 33

In <5786@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Paul BIG-EARS Menon) writes:

>Dear Lucky 7s,
>  Why can't I use a SyQuest cartridge on my Mac in VM mode?
>  I cannot create a swap file on these.  The "drive" popUp
>  doesn't have the SyQuest volumes  in its list (yes, it's
>  mounted!!).  Is it something to do with the driver?  
>  Fragmentation?  I erased the disk before I stuck System 7 onto 
>  it & sent it through Disk First Aid.  The only ones I've been 
>  able to have success with are the standard Apple hard drives.

>  Klues Appretiated...

>  Thanx,

>    Paul Menon,
>    Dept of Computer Science,
>    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 
>    124 Latrobe Street,
>    Melbourne 3001, 
>    Victoria, Australia.

>pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au
>PH:	+61 3 660 3209

>(PS - Please mail a response too, it's bedlam in this group right
You can not put VM on any removable media.  The reasion is simple -
What would happen if you ejected the cartride?, its kind of like
pulling SIMMS out of a running machine.

Charles Burchill
burchil@ccu.umanitoba.ca
>now - I'll probably miss it).