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From: jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu.engin.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CARTRIDGE HARD DISK storage ...
Keywords: cartridge hard disk storage for Macintosh
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Date: 3 Mar 89 15:03:00 GMT
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In article <23865@ism780c.isc.com> darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) writes:
>
>I have a DPI 44R removable.  It's very fast, reasonably quiet, and
>works well.  About the only problem I've noticed with it is that the
>system doesn't recgnize the drive if you boot without a disk in it.
>This is, I suppose, pretty obvious, but it means that if you want to
>backup your hard drive, you must load a disk and reboot, or keep
>one spinning all the time.

If you keep the cdev SCSI Tools by Paul Mercer in your system folder,
you can mount a disk at anytime after booting.  This at least works
with our DataPak from Mass Micro. The cdev is shareware and I think
is available on Sumex where it may be called something like SCSIbus or
SCSI1.05B3 or whatever.  Check out info-mac/cdev the list isnt too
long.

Hope this is useful.

Cheers

John Mansfield
North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor,
Michigan 48109-2143. 313-936-3352
Internet: jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu or john_mansfield.um.cc.umich.edu