RE: SyQuest Info Needed

[bpvh@shell1.fullfeed.com (Bradley VonHaden)]

smoberly@unomaha wrote:

>I called around looking for a SyQuest drive to hook up to it,
>alas noone apparently had anything apple compatable! Am I
>suprised, :-|  Anyway, any info you have regarding where I
>can get a backup SCSI drive, preferably SyQuest, and the
>relevant software to make the damn thing work would be
>greatly appreciated.

SCSI is SCSI is SCSI (well at least for the most part with SCSI-I).

I have a ClubMac SyQuest 105 SCSI removable on my scsi chain and it
works just fine.  As I have a Apple HS SCSI card it really only works
from GS/OS, but as you have a RAMFast, if you have the cartridge in
at boot it should work from both ProDOS and GS/OS, assuming the
correct ROM version.  I do not know what that would be.

While ordering, when they ask for computer type, say "MAC" and if you
have to, cringe while your saying it.

Backing up with a SyQuest is not inexpensive, even for the larger
sizes (200 or 270 meg).  Cartridges run $50-80 while tape goes for
around $10-20.  Having multiple generation backups makes the cost
higher and higher.  The great advantage of the removables is the
offline archiving.  Pop in a cartridge and presto, 44-270 megs of
new, clean space.  Its really quite nice.

For a tape drive, the best/only IIgs tape backup software is GS Tape
v2 from Tim Grams.  I believe their is a demo version of it at the
major A2 ftp sites.  I do not know what tape drives it works with.

Doesn't the RAMFast have its own tape backup support?  I thought it
did.

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