Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bunny!vaxine!jww
From: jww@vaxine.UUCP (Jeff Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CMS Experiences
Message-ID: <714@vaxine.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 14:14:29 GMT
References: <57900016@sfu_dipper> <422@palladium.UUCP>
Reply-To: jww@vaxine.UUCP (Jeff Walker)
Organization: Automatix Inc.,  Billerica, MA
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We recently got 3 CMS drives and a tape backup system in for evaluation.
The 40M, 80M, and 100M. The tape backup is the 60M 1/4" streaming tape drive
(based on the TEAC). I am very impressed with the quality of the software
which comes with the drives. It is easy to use yet powerful. It lets
you do the standard stuff like format, initialize, and install CMS's drivers,
but also let you do useful stuff like verify the disk, display the
allocation map, and move bad blocks. They have this one test called
"the overnight test" which writes to each block and verifies, looking for
bad blocks (wiping your drive, of course).

The backup software is very good as well. It allows you to a file by
file or image backup. The file by file is intuitive. It looks like the
normal "Open File" dialog, but also allows you to "Select All" or toggle
particular folders. The speed of the driver is good also: 32M in 10 min.

My only complaint about CMS is having 2 different floppies containing
system software. One for the lower capacity drives, and one for the
larger drives. A drive comes with the appropriate floppy, but its
one more thing to worry about when you are shipping different drives
with each system.

	-Jeff Walker
	 Automatix
	 (617) 667-7900
	 vaxine.UUCP!jww

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		-jww