Re: IIgs and Syquest removable drives

[herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)]

Previously rcuevas@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Ramon 'Jammin' Cuevas) wrote:
 
>As I understand it, the hardware responsible for reading Syquest (and
>compatible) removable hard-drive cartridges are SCSI compatible.
>Theoretically therefore, they should be able to work fine with an Apple
>IIgs equipped with some sort of SCSI card.
 
It's no theory, it's a fact. I've got an 88meg SyQuest drive connected to
a RAMfast SCSI card. Works OK.
 
>The question I have is this: would the cartridge have to remain online
>_all the time_,
 
No.
 
>or is one able to drag the hard drive icon to the trash, thereby
>ejecting the cartridge.
 
Dragging the icon to the trash will remove the drive icons from the
desktop, but to eject the disk, you still need to press the spin down
button and wait for the disk to stop before ejecting the cartridge.

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Herbert Fung              herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca