[comp.sys.atari.st.tech] Megafile 44 and others

gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe Gaudreau - Sun BOS Software) (10/23/90)

Any opinions on the Atari megafile 44?  or should I go with something
else?  Is there any real advantage in using one (maybe as a second
drive for backup?)  I'm curious to know if you can backup your M44 by
copying one "cartridge" to another...

Joe
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klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) (10/23/90)

In article <3027@jaytee.East.Sun.COM>, gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe
Gaudreau - Sun BOS Software) writes:
|> Any opinions on the Atari megafile 44?  or should I go with something
|> else?  Is there any real advantage in using one (maybe as a second
|> drive for backup?)  I'm curious to know if you can backup your M44 by
|> copying one "cartridge" to another...

My impression: reliable, fast (28ms), flexible. I have one drive at work
and one at home and a single cartridge I carry with me. So erery change I
make at work I have immediately available at home and vice versa.

Backing up a whole partition from one drive to another is fast and easy. I
simply did it with the normal desktop copy. This has the additional
advantage of defractioning the destination disk.

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