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From: bwildasi@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Wildasin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: CMD / SCSI drives
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Date: 6 Feb 90 12:10:53 GMT
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In article <2005@mrsvr.UUCP> doug@gemed.ge.com (Doug Curtis x4-6826) writes:
>Has anyone seen a review of the CMD Hard Drives, or
>better yet does anyone actually have one. The price $599
>(20Mb), doesn't sound to bad, compared to other C64/C128
>hard drives, and the advertised SCSI compatability sounds
>great. My only other question would be; can I still use
>my REU with the hard drive installed?

I have an REU, a 1581, and an internal 1571. Would it be possible
to use a drive with GEOS under this setup? If a drive had to
be sacrificed, would it be possible to disable the 1571?
Do these drives have folder support under GEOS (in other
words, little icons on the desktop to open subdirectories) or
would each partition have to be assigned a different drive number?
Is it possible to have a GEOS application load path, so that,
for example, you don't have to put a copy of GeoWrite in every
subdirectory where you want to edit Write documents?
If so, can you change folders from within GeoWrite? Is there
a system folder for fonts and DA's? Since there are many more
fonts and DA's than will fit in a menu, can they be grouped into
"suitcases"?
Finally, is there a SCSI interface out there which will allow use
of optical drives, tape backups, large-capacity hard drives, etc.
with GEOS?

Thanks,
Ben Wildasin

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Ben Wildasin                                      bwildasi@ucs.indiana.edu
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