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- From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Floptical drives, any reviews?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 11:22:49 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <0E010598.k6vsad@kithrup.Irvine.CA.US> nagel@Kithrup.Irvine.CA.US writes:
- >
- > 1. The floptical is not bootable, so I cannot load a system disk
- > there if my hard disk dies. I have an external 800K drive,
- > so I'm not totally sunk...
- >
- I have successfully booted my SE with a floptical. It takes
- forever, though, so I have an emergency disk set up with my hard
- drive's system folder and a few utilities, but of course I usually
- boot off the HD. I use the Floptical primarily for backup (with
- DiskFit Pro). I have also standardized formatting of my various
- disks with FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit PE (the "Lite" version). Both
- DFP and HDT are great programs. HDT also contains an extension
- which will recognise removable drives at bootup even if they're
- empty (this applies to Flopticals, SyQuest, etc.).
-
- My main complaint about Flopticals is that they seem relatively
- slow. I have never used any other removable media other than
- floppies, though, so I can't compare. One other quirk is that the
- disk doesn't always seat just right; I have learned to insert the
- disks with care and do a little maneuver with my finger that gets
- the drive to notice there's a disk there.
-
- I use the PLI drive. As mentioned, it's primarily for backups,
- and I also use it when I download stuff rather than putting it
- straight onto my HD.
-
-
-
- --
- Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu>
- "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
- affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery
-