vermilye@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Jon R. Vermilye) (10/10/88)
Has anyone had any experience with Mass Micro's Data Pax 45Meg cartridge systems? I have heard many complaints about cartridge drives in general from members of NYMUG, but nothing specific. We were hoping to use it to back up a 300M hard disk in a Mac II, however if there are problems I might be persuaded to try an Everex tape back up. I'd also appreciate any other suggestions for backing up and storing large (30 - 60 Meg) files. Jon R. Vermilye Department of Theatre SUNY Oswego Oswego, NY 13126 315 341 2138
darryl@ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman) (10/12/88)
In reply, and also to follow up on a posting I made a couple weeks ago, let me say that I am now quite pleased with my DPI 44R removable cartridge disk. All of the 45 mb cartridge disks are made by SyQuest, so the major distinctions are price, software, and support. The DPI was, at the time I bought, the cheapest. They were offering a user group discount; I paid $1295 for the drive, 2 cartridges, and a 25<->50 pin SCSI cable. As you may recall, I was having problems with it connected to my Mac II. It wouldn't work, although my old Jasmine Direct Drive 20 worked fine. I was able to get Apple to swap motherboards under warranty and now it is just great. (I still don't know what was wrong, but the DPI worked with every other Mac I connected it to.) The drive is very fast (I *think* they are advertising 18 ms access time, but don't count on my memory) and quiet. It is a bit slow to spin up and down. DPI supplies a diskette with a formatter program and a CDEV for mounting the hard disk. It has an external switch for setting the SCSI ID, but termination is inside the box (4 screws). There are 2 50 pin SCSI connectors on the back. --Darryl Richman -- Copyright (c) 1988 Darryl Richman The views expressed are the author's alone darryl@ism780c.isc.com INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.--An Eastman Kodak Company "For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger) (10/14/88)
In article <965@oswego.Oswego.EDU>, vermilye@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Jon R. Vermilye) writes: > Has anyone had any experience with Mass Micro's Data Pax 45Meg > cartridge systems? I have had a Mass Micro 45 meg Cartridge Drive since shortly after the Boston Expo, and have had zero problems, and use several "carts" to backup both my BBS 80meg, and my Mac II 100meg. Backups are fast, You can backup 80meg in about 10min using DiskFit, and subsequent incrementals of course are even faster, if done daily or every couple of days, switching "carts" can take longer than the backup almost...I recommend the Mass Micro Datapak system, its been reliable and solid for me so far, and you can use other carts as storage or work since they are as fast as a normal HD, 25ms access time....they are a little spendier per meg, but its the removeable technology that you are paying for I guess.....Norm