[comp.sys.apple] GS with 45meg Removable Hard Drive

usenet_news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (02/21/90)

these drives..
From: yu-r@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (rafael t yu)
Path: dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu!yu-r

  Another question.  can you use a Mac 45meg Removable Hard Drive with a GS
with a SCSI card?  is there any compability problems?
 
  Thanks in advance for any help.....

unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (02/21/90)

In article <77391@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> rafael t yu <yu-r@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>  Another question.  can you use a Mac 45meg Removable Hard Drive with a GS
>with a SCSI card?  is there any compability problems?

	It seems that these removable drives are now my next step for
mass media, now that both companies have said no to the Floptical drive
group buying effort.

	From what a couple of the Apple II DTS people have said, the 
drivers support removable media even though the firmware doesn't. [From
what I understand, the SCSI card itself does not report back a "hey
computer, the user took out the cartridge/disk" message to the computer, but
the drivers somehow get around that and do report back]

	I am going to write to CMS soon and see if they got theirs working
with GS/OS perfectly like they said they would at AppleFest last year (from
what they said, they'd've been out working fine for months now).

	I want to be able to copy from one cartridge to another so that 
I can backup from one cartridge to another and have to deal with floppies
as little as possible. Even if that is not possible, I think these
cartridge drives are a better idea than regular hard drives.


-- 
No floptical drives. Both companies said no. GET A CARTRIDGE drive instead
to spite them.
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