darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) (06/06/91)
In article <25211@well.sf.ca.us> 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. How well does the GVP II work with the Bernoulli? Does it treat the Bernoulli as a 20 meg floppy? Can you power up the system with no Bernoulli and then say do a DIR FRED: where FRED: is a bernoulli cartridge. When you put the FRED: cartridge in it should then give you a directory of the cartridge without clicking retry (just like a floppy). > >-Roger >rhand@well.sf.ca.us -- Darrell Grainger % Comspec Communications Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada darrell@comspec % Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own. (416) 617-1475 % (416) 633-5605 (416)785-3553
rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun5.190339.10057@comspec.uucp>, darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) writes: > Does it [GVP SCSI] treat the Bernoulli as a 20 meg floppy? Not quite. If it did, then the driver would have to mount the DOS device even if no cartridge (or one without an RDB) is inserted (much like the DF[0-3], for example). Prior to Kickstart 2.0, this wouldn't make a lot of sense for a hard disk, since only the old filesystem is available in ROM. > Can you power up the system with no Bernoulli and then say > do a DIR FRED: where FRED: is a bernoulli cartridge. When > you put the FRED: cartridge in it should then give you a > directory of the cartridge without clicking retry (just > like a floppy). Yes, provided you manually create a MountList entry for this "default" Bernoulli partition and then Mount it in the Startup-Sequence of your boot partition. Ralph