price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) (03/08/91)
Here's one I haven't seen before: Background: I used to live with my parents. I have a mac+ and a Mirror 45Mb removable ("new" Syquest mechanism) hard drive. My parents bought themselves a blank disk to use with my drive, which they loaded up with all sorts of stuff (as parents are wont to do... :) I have since moved out, and I took my mac+ and hard drive with me. They have their own SE, but no hard drive. They are interested in getting one, however. Since I needed a new disk anyway, I took theirs after backing it up to floppies with Redux 1.62. Now the questions: first, for the c.s.m.hardware folks, are there any compelling reasons *not* to buy a Mirror drive? The latest price in MacUser is $617. That's the one they're "used" to, and they'd sort of prefer to stay with that brand. I doubt that they need a removable, but they're sold on that sort of drive. Please don't try to convince me that they wouldn't need one. I've already tried convincing them. You know how parents are. :) Second, for the c.s.m.apps folks, assuming that there is a good reason to get another drive, are there any problems transferring a Redux backup set from a particular brand of drive to another one? There shouldn't be, since ideally the program shouldn't care what sort of drive I try to restore to, as long as it's big enough, but I'd like to hear it from someone who knows more about what they're talking about than I do. Thanks in advance! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Price | Internet: price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu 5-145 Knudsen Hall | BITNET: price@uclaph UCLA Dept. of Physics | SPAN: uclapp::price Los Angeles, CA 90024-1547 | YellNet: 213-825-2259 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where there is no solution, there is no problem.