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From: darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger)
Subject: Bernoulli/GVP II question (was Re: Removable harddrives - What works, what doesn't???)
Organization: Comspec Communications Inc  Toronto Ontario
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 19:03:39 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.190339.10057@comspec.uucp>
References: <1530@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <25211@well.sf.ca.us>
Sender: darrell@comspec (Darrell Grainger)

In article <25211@well.sf.ca.us> rhand@well.sf.ca.us (Roger Hand) writes:
>
>James:
>  From SECOND and THIRD hand experience I decided against a Syquest 
>myself.  They can be had for about 400 clams but they (40 meg, at
>least) don't seem to be the greatest design.  I left messages on
>CompuServe and lots of boards about Syquest when I was interested,
>and the responses scared me away.  Who needs READ/WRITE ERRORS?
>  The RICOH drive is supposedly better.  In fact GVP told me they
>had stopped selling Syquest because there were too many problems, but
>the RICOH drive would be better.
>  I ended up with a 20 Meg Bernoulli (got it for a song, used!) and
>a GVP II controller.  I'm happy as a clam.

 How well does the GVP II work with the Bernoulli? Does it treat the 
Bernoulli as a 20 meg floppy? Can you power up the system with no
Bernoulli and then say do a DIR FRED: where FRED: is a bernoulli 
cartridge. When you put the FRED: cartridge in it should then give you
a directory of the cartridge without clicking retry (just like a floppy).

>
>-Roger
>rhand@well.sf.ca.us






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