pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (04/13/90)
Hi anybody,
Have any experience with the SyQuest 44 MB removable hard drive ?
Lately, the price seems to have come down a fair bit ($599 for
a drive with one catridge and a Seagate SCSI controller; additional
catridge at $85 each), so I am considering buying one again.
I personally have never seen one working in a PC. Has anyone have
any experience with it working ? Is the SCSI controller standard
and does it work in a 386 system which already have an ESDI drive ?
To be precise, my system has a DTC-6280 controller with a Micropolis
1355 hard disk.
I heard some time ago that someone had the drive hooked up to a
standard SCSI controller running XENIX and it works perfectly. I am
just wondering if the bundled controller will work equally well ?
(* By the way, can that person please post his experience again ?
I seem to have lost the info after a few months :-) *)
Under DOS, can FASTBACK use the SyQuest drive (via. the device driver)
as a backup media (I'm just getting tired of shuffling floopies doing
backup :-( ) ? Anybody has any success with this ?
... and can I get hold of technical info to write device drivers
for the drive if I have to ? ... and how reliable are these drives ?
Any info (or pointer to more info) is much appreciated. You can either
e-mail to me or reply to this news (notes ?) message.
Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........
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