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- From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
- Subject: Re: a question of storage
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.171219.22669@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: Eastern Michigan University
- References: <2B3D4D2D.7137@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:12:19 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <2B3D4D2D.7137@ics.uci.edu> jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:
- >I am leaning towards the floptical drives because of the ability to
- >read Mac and IBM (with the new FST with 6.01) 1.44 High density 3.5s,
- >and from the ads from the current MacUsers, the flopticals can be had
- >for around $359, which is less than the cheapest Syquests (around $399.)
- >The price differnce isn't really an issue, since it's only around $50.
- >But the storage is only 21 megs (probably less, since formatting takes
- >up some space, I don't know how much), as compared to the 45 meg
- >syquests (which is around 41-43 of usable space.) Since I do plan on
- >using the removable as a backup device, as well as a primary storage
- >on the GS, the size of the media is an issue.
-
- Well, I agree with a lot of this (I also want a floptical), but what I
- have seen of the floptical drive, the 20MB cartridges are actually a
- little cheaper per Meg than the Syquest cartridges. The flopticals are
- also physically smaller (the size of a 3.5" disk) so they will fit
- nicely in my disk holders.
-
- >I have the Rev. C Apple SCSI card (the really slow, non DMA variety),
- >and the RamFAST SCSI card rev. B board, with ROM 3.00(something), I
- >will probably need to upgrade the roms again to work with the
- >flopticals.
-
- Hmm, there was a file posted just recently to c.b.a2 to use the Apple
- SCSI card with the floptical drives. And upgrading the RF ROMs isn't
- that much of a pain.
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