earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) (06/08/89)
I am in the market for a SCSI tape drive in the 40-80 Meg range,
costing less than $800. I don't know much about what kind of units
are available, but I do know that if I have to perform a
backup/restore of a hard disk using floppies ONE MORE TIME, I am going
to lose my mind.
Anyone with experience in this area, or knowledge of an
especially good bargain, please send me some Email. I will summarize
in another posting if I get enough replies.
Also, does anyone know about "MacProducts USA," in Austin? They
advertise a 60mb tape system for $699. Has anyone out there purchased
this unit, and what does she have to say about it?
"People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you
did it." Salada Tag Linestwakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman) (06/10/89)
I have a Magic 60 drive, the 60meg disk drive from MacProducts USA. I
purchased it at the last SF MacWorld. Didn't get a chance to use it
until early April because I broke a SIMM socket trying to install one of their
SIMMs {I urge caution with their SIMMs}. I sent the board back to have them
solder in a new socket & check the SIMMs out. It came back with a new problem,
I sent it back to MacProducts & it came back with a new problem & I sent it
back & it finally came back functional. {I suspect that thier tech support
is not the best}.
It seems to run OK, is noiser then my Jasmine 20. Both SCSI sockets are
the same {I think the 50 pin}. It came formatted {sys 6.02} with 10 meg
of software including a lot of fonts & pd anti-virus goodies. It has a
bank of power switches & can be used as a power control center. The enclosure
is metal & clearance for one of my power sockets at the back of the drive
is too great & the socket is a little loose. The enclosure is the standard
toaster mac footprint, which makes it stackable {My plus sits atop both
SCSI drives}.
I have not had any problems with it but due to the troubles I had with my
digital board after MacProducts got through with it, got through with it,
I do not entirely trust the drive yet. I was trying to set up the system
with 2 SCSI drives, using a cripled computer {I did not know at the time
what was causing the problem} 2.5 Meg for the first time, multifinder for
the first time & 6.0.2 for the first time. I was getting very unexpected
crashes & booting problems & suspected everything including my INITs until
I got it narrowed down to my digital board coming home sick.
The price is right, my drive has worked so far, I have personally had bad
luck with their tech support department. So no complaints about the drive
so far, knock on wood.
TeriAnn
twakeman@hpcea.ce.hp.comkmarko@hpdml93.HP.COM (Kurt Marko) (06/14/89)
/ hpdml93:comp.sys.mac / earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) / 7:05 pm Jun 7, 1989 /
I am in the market for a SCSI tape drive in the 40-80 Meg range,
costing less than $800. I don't know much about what kind of units
are available, but I do know that if I have to perform a
backup/restore of a hard disk using floppies ONE MORE TIME, I am going
to lose my mind.
Anyone with experience in this area, or knowledge of an
especially good bargain, please send me some Email. I will summarize
in another posting if I get enough replies.
Also, does anyone know about "MacProducts USA," in Austin? They
advertise a 60mb tape system for $699. Has anyone out there purchased
this unit, and what does she have to say about it?
"People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you
did it." Salada Tag Lines
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