Re: IIgs and Syquest removable drives

[jemorti@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Jack Mortimer - K31)]

In article <1993Jul19.045523.6392@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, rcuevas@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Ramon 'Jammin' Cuevas) writes:
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|> 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. The question I have is this: would the cartridge
|> have to remain online _all the time_, or is one able to drag the hard drive
|> icon to the trash, thereby ejecting the cartridge. I'd especially be
|> interested in hearing opinions from people that already have a Syquest/
|> compatible removable hard drive equipped to their Apple - thanks!
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|> Ramon F. Cuevas
|> rcuevas@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
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There is a real good article covering this in this month's issue of 
SoftDiskGS. As I understand it, Apple's drivers will not eject what it
understands to be a hard disk. Someone else wrote driver(s) that will
perform the disk eject function (maybe lots of other improvements as well).
	With the Apple driver apparently one needs to manually eject the
disk and then drag the icon to the trash to remove it.
	 I reserve the right to have completely misunderstood this
entire subject and am willing to be gently corrected.
	I hope this helps. You may want to contact SDGS and buy this issue,
or better still, subscribe.
Jack Mortimer
jemorti@relay.nswc.navy.mil