Re: SyQuest Help!

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <32762C33.A60@eds.com>, EDavis  <LNUSMNF.EDAVIS02@eds.com> wrote:
>Last night I blew up another SyQuest 44 Meg. cart.  Does anyone have
>this drive, and have any experience with it?  

   Never owned one, but have used/had to maintain computers with those
things. I had enough bad experiences with them that I wouldn't trust
any data to them that I cared about. [First one acquired the bad habit
of spinning down then back up when attempting to write to it, the
other ate a Syquest cartridge a month, finally culminating in a head
crash that scarred the platter.]

   Zip drives are faster, more reliable, more portable, and available
new now. It may be worth it to upgrade if you're having enough
problems with that Syquest.

Nathan Mates

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