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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it?
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Date: 12 Aug 89 13:02:36 GMT
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With proper software, a SyQuest drive should act like a large
fast floppy.  You should be able to eject a cartridge, which
will dim the icon on the desktop.  You should get the
"Please insert disk so-and-so" dialog if you try to access
that disk while ejected.  In particular, you should be able
to copy files from one cartridge to another, just like you
would copy from one floppy to another on a single drive
floppy system.

The vendor of the drive should provide an INIT file ( or a CDEV)
that you can place in the System folder of your non-removable
hard drive.  The INIT should load the SyQuest driver if there
was no cartridge in the drive.  You should NOT have to have
a cartridge in the drive.

If a vendor of SysQuest drives does not provide the above, go
buy from another vendor.  The first is not doing an adequate
job of providing software.

Besides SyQuest drives, vendors should make their erasable optical
drives work this way also.

					Tim Smith