info-mac@uw-beaver.UUCP (11/11/84)
From: KSPROUL@RUTGERS.ARPA In my oppion, Dysan disks are THE best on the market (but you pay for it).. Recently, Xidex (spelling?) bought 60% of Dysan (confirmed by a Dysan rep).. I think this was because Dysan was having financial problems, but am not sure on this... Also recently, I got a couple of Brown Mac Disks... And I didn't even know that Brown was making 3.5" disks... What I want to know, are Brown disks (all sizes!!) any good.. The local Brown rep says that Brown is remotely related to Dysan (Which I had guessed from the very first time I had heard of Brown) and that the technoligy in Brown Disks is the same as that in Dysan... Also Brown prices are quite good!! Would anybody that has had ANY experince with Brown Disks PLEASE let me know if these are any good, BEFORE I go and buy $3000 worth of them for use at my work..!! Also, does anybody think there are any brands of disks that are BETTER than Dysan? (Ignoring cost) Thanks very much... Keith Sproul Ksproul@Rutgers.arpa -------
info-mac@uw-beaver.UUCP (11/12/84)
From: shebanow%ucbernie@Berkeley (Mike Shebanow) This is just my personal opinion, but I would be very careful about buying Dysan 3.5 inch disks. Dysan, for a very long time, refused to even consider making a 3.5 inch disk in favor of their own format. When their microfloppy program bit the dust a few months ago, they rushed to get a 3.5 inch disk ready for the market. I haven't used their disks, so I cannot say if they are actually good or bad, but it seems to me that Sony (and Verbatim, and Maxell, and BASF) all have a big headstart in development time. I haven't had any problems with the Sony disks, and I think that they are probably the best there is right now. Just because Dysan makes the best 5.25 disks doesn't mean they make the best 3.5 inch disks. A. Shebanow shebano
info-mac@uw-beaver (12/13/84)
From: Paul Burega <paul%uofm-uts.cdn%ubc.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> Maybe you can give me a hand. Just got a FATMAC, and am impressed. However, I cannot get the ramdisk to work. I have it on the boot disk, and I double click it. When it returns, a 2nd disk is sitting there, and if one opens it, then there is an empty folder and 318k (i think) free. Most things I try to copy by dragging the icon fail with the mess COPY UNSUCCESSFUL, TRY ANOTHER DISK. If the file did copy correctly, then it either bombs when you run it (ID=10), or upon exiting, the ram disk has all the icons destroyed, and the file names changed to garbage. Doing anything else causes a fatal system restart. Any suggestions? I am doing something wrong, or do I have a defective mac ? Thanks. Paul.