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From: dumesny@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Alain Dumesny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can anyone tell me his/her experience with CMS hard disks?
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Date: 5 Apr 88 04:42:12 GMT
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Reply-To: dumesny@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Alain Dumesny)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Subject: Re: Can anyone tell me his/her experience with CMS hard disks?
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I recently got my CMS Pro60 II (a segate drive) from Macland (very good
prices, 1-800-333-3353) and LOVE it (especially for $700 :-)

I would strongly recomend people to get CMS drives because they are very
cheap (depending where you buy them from) and come with a very good
formater/initializer that is pretty complete.  It include :
format - initialize - ID search - install new driver - tests (drive blocks,
and also an overnight test (long)) and also a lot of very nice goodies, such
as a graphical map of the drive, and some advance features such as fast HD 
copy, reassign block...

Also, CMS include a few additonal software on the disk, such as :
- Apple SCSI installer (useless since CMS's one is MUCH better)
- HD backup (though I would recomend getting DiskFit from SuperMac)
- zaPRAM (to zap your PRAMs when you mac II get confused after bomb)
- initPRAM (to avoid the above, very nice)
- some other stuff...

CMS formatter is very nice (has lots of nice features), and I would recommend
getting DiskFit (SuperMac) and DiskExpress (do de-fragmentize the drive).

The CMS pro80 II uses a quantum drive (exactly the same drive Apple uses for
the 40 and 80 meg drive) which is quite fast, and you can get it from CMS
for a lot less, so why bother ?


Hope this helped,
Alain Dumesny
Cornell University.