Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!ts From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Removable "HD"s -- are they worth it? Message-ID: <21222@cup.portal.com> Date: 12 Aug 89 13:02:36 GMT References: <9095@venera.isi.edu> <3000@blake.acs.washington.edu> <458@asterix.drev.dnd.ca> <20986@cup.portal.com> <1384@draken.nada.kth.se> <20441@paris.ics.uci.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 23 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