2FHDBEAK@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (12/10/89)
In article <8912080824.AA01365@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, MAXG@SUVM.BITNET ("Gerry Greenberg: 315-443-5378") writes: > Does anybody out there have a Syquest removable drive hooked up to their > machine? or know the address/phone > of Syquest? This might be the way to go for a hard drive > system...Maybe putting off getting a hard drive for so long might > actually pay off?! > Thanks, > Gerry > ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (internet) Atari makes a Syquest drive, the MegaFile 44. I've never used one, but I know a few dealers supposedly have them . --Jimbo
wyant@eplrx7.uucp (Patrick Wyant) (12/12/89)
From article <19554@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, by 2FHDBEAK@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu: > In article <8912080824.AA01365@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, MAXG@SUVM.BITNET ("Gerry Greenberg: 315-443-5378") writes: >> Does anybody out there have a Syquest removable drive hooked up to their >> machine? or know the address/phone >> of Syquest? This might be the way to go for a hard drive >> system...Maybe putting off getting a hard drive for so long might >> actually pay off?! >> Thanks, >> Gerry >> ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (internet) > > Atari makes a Syquest drive, the MegaFile 44. I've never used one, but > I know a few dealers supposedly have them . > > --Jimbo A small outfit near Baltimore called Toad Computers makes the same 44 Mbyte removable cartridge for less than Atari charges. They put an ICD disk controller and a Syquest drive in your choice of boxes with power supply and SCSI interface. We have been using one with our ST for three months and it works well so far. Patrick Wyant *!uunet!eplrx7!wyant -- The UUCP Mailer
buggs@cup.portal.com (William Edward JuneJr) (12/18/89)
How can one get the bare drives<the Syquest mech> to build one with.
It SHOULD be cheaper to build one yourself.
Ed June
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^^------What's all these weird characters when in ANSI <VT-100?>?dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small) (12/19/89)
The basenote concerns Syquest 4 megabyte removable drives. I just got done reviewing two such aftermarket units and I used the Atari Megafile 44 at Comdex demoing Spectre. I can only say I wish someone had told me about them earlier; I would have bought more. As is, after testing, we went and bought four more from the manufacturer, hanging them on Mac II's, ST's, and whatnot. I am incredibly impressed with this unit. It's the single most positive review I have ever written for a product; I could not find anything wrong to say. (People are going to think I was paid off or something!) The drive is incredibly fast; it walks all over a hot Omti 3527 / Mitsubishi RLL 60 meg drive, which was my fastest. It is extremely portable; we switch disks around the office all the time, never a problem. It has never ONCE glitched us. Furthermore, it is tough beyond belief. When the review units arrived from START magazine, they were crammed full inside with those peanut-packing-pellets. This wasin the critical head area, the superclean area! We vacuumed it out, and the drive failed to work. Next, we reopened the drive, found more packing pellets jammed in the seeker circuitry, and cleaned them out; the drive could not seek to track 0 because of them. The drive started working. That's beyond belief; every other hard disk I know of would have been fried with all the fragments of junk in there. We have never had a problem in moving platters from drive to drive. The Syquest drives are now our primary development drives, eclipsing the Mitsubishi setup that frankly cost more. They are SCSI and a snap to hook up with an ICD interface. Both Toad Computers and CarterGraphics in UTA sell them; I really can't recommend them more. All I can say is, why didn't someone tell me about them before? -- thanks, Dave / Gadgets p.s. A correctly Macformatted Syquest goes right into Spectre in Mac Mode. Talk about a handy way to move 44 megs around.
krieg@jupiter.uucp (Andrew Krieg) (12/20/89)
Do you have any specs/pricing for these units. I'm looking for a removable disk and these sound good! -- ========================================================================= = Andrew Krieg The Marvel Historian = = G.E. Medical Systems - CT - New Berlin, WI = = USENET: krieg@jupiter.med.ge.com = ========================================================================= = "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from store." = = "Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!" - The Grinch = =========================================================================