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- From: jhi@netcom.com (John Im)
- Subject: Re: Flopticals as start-up drives?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.002422.273@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec13.210805.16567@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU> <1h988mINNav4@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:24:22 GMT
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- In article <1h988mINNav4@agate.berkeley.edu> jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel) writes:
- >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. :-)
-
- OK, so it's slow compared to a hard drive, which is to be expected. However,
- how's it compared to booting from a floppy? In fact, how's the overall
- speed compared to a floppy drive?
-
- - John
-