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- From: Tony McCreath <mccreath@bnr.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Dataflyer4000SX & Syquest 135M Removable
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:32:50 +0100
- Organization: Bell Northern Research
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- Hi,
-
- I was at the Amiga show in London this weekend and got myself a lovely
- bag of goodies including the Dataflyer4000SX and that removable Syquest
- drive
- which I cant remeber its cute name of at the moment.
-
- After several hours of toiling I got the thing to work. Most issues were
- from
- not reading the instructions fully and some bad connections.
-
- The removable Syquest is now my only SCSI drive.
-
- Now I have a few questions:
-
- 1) If I don't have a disk in the syquest or it is not turned on when I
- boot
- I have to wait the 60 seconds before the boot starts (presumably a
- card
- reset) and then the drive is not recognised. Is there any way in
- improving
- this?. Would the addition of a real SCSI harddrive remove the 60
- second
- issue?. Is there any software which can recognise the drive after a
- boot up.
-
- 2) I found the software which checks the syquest every 5 seconds or so
- for
- any change in the disk. However I still seem to be getting a confused
- system. If I remove a disk, this is not recognised by workbench and
- any
- access to a file on this removed drive causes a disk read error. I
- only have
- the one disk at the moment so I cannot fully test this software.
- Is there any other software about which can improve on this e.g. Icon
- removed
- when disk removed.
-
- 3) Do I have to go through the provided prep software to format every
- new
- disk?.
-
- I still have to play with DOPUS5, TurboPrint and TT2-Pro :)
-
- And I got a 4mg 70ns 72pin sim for 45 pounds :]. I have 12mg fast.
- Anyone any
- ideas on how to use it apart from making everything resident?
-
- By the way, the show was packed when I got there, could have done with
- some
- more stalls, in particular Phase 5 could have been there with loads of
- Hardware. oh well, it saved me some money. I couldn't get hold of AFS
- either :(
-
- Hopefully the good turnout will promote a bigger and better one next
- year.
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