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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SuperMac XP150 drive ??
Message-ID: <2891@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 May 88 04:22:07 GMT
References: <6150020@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <6150020@hpcupt1.HP.COM> rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) writes:

>Does anyone out there has signficant experience with (therefore a reaction
>to the new(er) SuperMac XP150 (external hard disk drive)).  I hear that it
>is good, fast, but expensive. 

Yes, and yes, and yes.  There are only two problems with it in my application:
1) it comes up too slowly, so that if there is also an internal disk, the
internal always gets recognized (if you strap the AC power to a single switch).
Thus, I have to turn it on first, and give it 15-20 seconds to spin up before
I boot the Mac.

2) It's boot sector cannot handle A/UX partitions... so that you can't run it
in partitioned mode with both A/UX and Mac OS [they are working on a fix for
this one].

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)