rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher) (03/12/90)
I just formatted a Syquest 45 meg removable and it works fine with System 5.02. It is a MicroNet brand but all of the 45 meg mechanisms are made by Syquest. I formatted a CMS 45 meg removable drive under System 4.0, but it would not allow changing cartridges without restarting. Under System 5.0 the finder polls the 45 meg just like a unidisk 3.5 floppy. When you eject the disk it greys the icon and when you put it back it restores the icons. The drive was very fast. It ran AppleWorks GS 5 seconds faster than my Seagate 40 meg ST251. One interesting point: The cartridge would not remount if the write-protect was enabled on the cartridge. The system also would not start without a car- tridge in the drive, if the drive was powered up. I only had one cartridge so I couldn't test if it will allow a second cartridge to be inserted and mount the new volumes. It otherwise acts just like a giant multi-volume floppy drive so I don't see why that can't be done. Rick Fincher rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu
jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) (03/12/90)
I don't have experience with partitions on the Apple line of computers, but I do know that if you use the Syquest with different partitions on different cartridges, you will crash version 1.3.2 of Amiga Workbench. This might be interesting (if not important) for people to try on IBMs and Apples. -- John M. Adams --*-- Professional Student on the six-year plan! /// Internet: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu -or- vladimir@maple.circa.ufl.edu /// "Houston, we have a negative on that orbit trajectory." Calvin & Hobbs \\X//