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- From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Flopticals as start-up drives?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 08:33:26 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Dec13.210805.16567@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec13.210805.16567@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU> buyskes@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Steve Buyske) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone know if any of the floptical drives on the market function
- >as start-up disks?
-
- My PLI floptical will boot. It plugs into the SCSI bus and works
- like any other removable SCSI drive. It tends to be real slow at
- booting, though. I use it mostly for backups and boot from it only
- in extreme emergencies. :-)
-
- --
- Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu>
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- affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery
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