Re: Focus story

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

John <tgbpoi29@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> wrote:

>Recently my 60mb Focus HD died. I bought a 170 meg drive, plugged it onto
>the card (4 screws), mananged (didn't know I needed system 6) to get the
>focusformat utility going, partitioned the drive, found a backup on a
>SyQuest of my old HD (very fortunate to have this), booted from this
>SyQuest, copied files from SyQuest to first partition of Focus (think I
>had to format via GS/OS too). Poof. Think I'm rolling.
>
>So, backup your Focus using a bootable removable, don't fret if the HD
>fails because (except of needing system 6 for Focusformat) the replacement
>is pretty easy and very cheap.

Yup.  The ideal drives would be the 500MB variety.  These are even
better 2.5" drives because if you examine the MTBF numbers, they
are much higher.  Better technology.