Re: Iomega Drives

[kindall@falcon.ic.net (Jerry Kindall)]

Philip E. Cloud (curious1@ionet.net) wrote:

:   The discusion about Iomega new zip drive sparked a question of mine.
: Anyone know what you have to have, or if you even can, use the 
: Bernoulli type drives with the GS.  I know they need their own drivers
: for the Macintosh so I figured they might not be totally SCSI compatible.
: (or their drivers are just better :)   

I've had no trouble running my Bernoulli 150 with "generic" SilverLining 
and/or Hard Disk Toolkit drivers.  However, it does appear that 
Bernoulli's driver does track caching or something, so it might well be 
faster (haven't actually done any tests on this, mind you).  But I'd 
imagine the drive would work fine on an Apple II -- I know people that 
are using them on Amigas, for example.  A RamFAST would probably be the 
optimal controller because I know it deals with a larger set of "weird" 
devices than the Apple card and thus stands a better chance of working.

:   My brother just picked up one of the new 240 units, so i'm curious about
: the praticality of getting one for myself as well.
:  (or a Zip drive if they work out alright)

If you decide to get a 230 MB Bernoulli, you should know about a deal 
that Iomega has available through Service Bureaus right now.  Buy five 
cartridges at $99 apiece and they give you the drive for free.  (Plus you 
have the option to buy additional three-packs of cartridges at $199 for 
three, essentially buy-two-get-one-free).  Considerably more expensive 
than the ZipDrive, but more than twice the capacity, and the speed is 
superior as well.  Oh, and the drive also reads and writes all the 
smaller sizes of Bernoulli cartridges -- there's something to be said for 
standardizing.

Check with your local service bureau for more information on this offer.  
Or, contact Terry Morris Productions -- they're a service bureau in CA 
which has been pretty aggressive in promoting this deal online.  (You order 
directly from Iomega's order fulfillment house, so have no worries about 
ordering from someone you've never heard of.  Morris, who I used to get 
the 150 MB drive, just sends you the order form, which you fax to Iomega.)

E-mail: t.morris5@genie.geis.com

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