parker@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James Parker) (05/21/91)
I am in the market for a removable harddrive for my Amiga 2000. I already
have a Supra Wordsync SCSI controller.
Do the Syquest drives work well? How about the new 80+Meg drives?
Can I just plug it into the SCSI port, edit the mountlist, and go or would
the manufacturer supply a driver?
Can anyone recommend a better removable or comment on the Syquest?
Thanks,
Parker
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Lab Coordinator |Ed_Meyer@mindlink.bc.ca (Ed Meyer) (05/22/91)
> parker@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu writes: > > Msg-ID: <1530@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> > Posted: 21 May 91 12:00:16 GMT > > Org. : WVU Statistics and Computer Science > Person: James Parker > > > > I am in the market for a removable harddrive for my Amiga 2000. I already > have a Supra Wordsync SCSI controller. > > Do the Syquest drives work well? How about the new 80+Meg drives? > > Can I just plug it into the SCSI port, edit the mountlist, and go or would > the manufacturer supply a driver? > > Can anyone recommend a better removable or comment on the Syquest? > > > Thanks, > Parker > > -- > James Parker (parker@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu) /* STANDARD DISCLAIMERS */ > WVU ComputerScience | > Graphic & Computation | Do not write in this space. > Lab Coordinator | I would recommend some form of removable-media drive for two reasons: (1) until you actually experience changing a removable harddisk cassette being almost as easy as changing a floppy, you may not appreciate one of the niceties/conveniences -- for backups, for "theme" disks", for animations, for audio-visuals, etc. (2) doing backups to a removable disk is so quick compared to most other methods that I figure it was worthwhile saving up to afford it. I happen to have selected a GVP (SCSI) controller with a 44MB SyQuest. After adding "RH0:" -- which, except for the SCSI unit number, was identical to my "DH0:" mountlist partition -- the system worked the first time. I didn't get the auto-diskchange ROMs at the time so I had to issue the DiskChange command when I inserted a new disk cassette: one instruction... big deal. Which system/disks/SCSI-controller you may use is your choice; I've had mine for about 1.5 years and it has never given me any grief except when I have caused it :-) Choose your system to work best for you. Ed Meyer +----------------------------+ | No more blah, blah, blah! | | - StarTrek | +----------------------------+
rhand@well.sf.ca.us (Roger Hand) (06/04/91)
James: From SECOND and THIRD hand experience I decided against a Syquest myself. They can be had for about 400 clams but they (40 meg, at least) don't seem to be the greatest design. I left messages on CompuServe and lots of boards about Syquest when I was interested, and the responses scared me away. Who needs READ/WRITE ERRORS? The RICOH drive is supposedly better. In fact GVP told me they had stopped selling Syquest because there were too many problems, but the RICOH drive would be better. I ended up with a 20 Meg Bernoulli (got it for a song, used!) and a GVP II controller. I'm happy as a clam. -Roger rhand@well.sf.ca.us
davidthx@netcom.COM (David Holleb) (06/11/91)
rhand@well.sf.ca.us (Roger Hand) writes: >James: > From SECOND and THIRD hand experience I decided against a Syquest >myself. They can be had for about 400 clams but they (40 meg, at >least) don't seem to be the greatest design. I left messages on >CompuServe and lots of boards about Syquest when I was interested, >and the responses scared me away. Who needs READ/WRITE ERRORS? > The RICOH drive is supposedly better. In fact GVP told me they >had stopped selling Syquest because there were too many problems, but >the RICOH drive would be better. > I ended up with a 20 Meg Bernoulli (got it for a song, used!) and >a GVP II controller. I'm happy as a clam. >-Roger >rhand@well.sf.ca.us Roger- I'm curious where the people who got read/write errors had their syquest's mounted.? I assume you mean frequent read/write errors, since harddrives and floppy's get them occasionally. And any removable drive, if you stop it or remove it when something is still writing to it, then read/write errors happen. Just like read/write or corruptted data errors on hard drives from turning the power off, when they're being written to, or rebooting before the final flick of the harddisk LED. Another question I have is what interleave the syquest was formatted for, what the flag value in the mountlist was, and the CPU speed of the machine? Knowing the right combination, can result in errorless operation, AND WITH THE NEWS OF THE SYQUEST 80 Meg. drives out any day now, I'm staying with them. An 80 Meg drive for HARDdrive backup, and watching 80Meg animations is great! David ------------------------------------------------------------------ UUCP Mailnet- uunet!pyramid!cdp!davidthx BIX- DavidTHX Internet- cdp!davidthx@labrea.stanford.edu CIS- 72010,2434 DASnet- [DE3MIR]davidthx Prodigy- GXMF49A PeaceNet, Econet, & IGC - davidthx PeaceNet, Econet, GreenNet, AlterNet, Pegasus, Web or most APC/IGC networks - igc:davidthx ------------------------------------------------------------------