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Re: hard drive questions
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:42:18 -0700, Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote:
>Jim Conger wrote:
>The CFFAs are so much faster it'll feel like your computers are running
>several times as fast
I've been pleased so far with the speed. It is a bit spooky to boot
my //e silently... I grew up with the sounds of a Disk ][.
I also plan to experiment with backing up the CFs with good old dd and
compress (dd if=/dev/sda | compress)... should work as long as I
restore to the same or larger CF. I have some ProDOS and DOS 3.3 file
system drivers for Linux, so I may have a quick way to transfer files
to CD. With OS X, you can probably do the same.
>You can download a late version of the Sider manual from my website.
>The Software's there too but it seem that PCs have difficulty with that
>subdirectory. If so, let me know and I'll email them too you.
>http://homepage.mac.com/waynes
I have a manual, but I could really use the software. The manufacture
date is "0586", so that must be 05/86. I tried your site with my
browsers (Mozilla .9-something and Netscape 4.77 on Linux) as well as
from IE. Something strange there if none of those work. I'd very
much appreciate you e-mailing the software!
>The Sider is a really noisy drive even when new. If it's become more
>noisy since you acquired it that's a different story. Since brand new
>mine has clicked and grunted when starting up. It chirps and grinds
>when it reads and writes. Came across another drive a short while ago
>and it sounds the same.
That description sounds a lot like the noises this one makes. It was
in my high school's library while I was a student there. I guess the
large room kept it from sounding so loud. In my home office, it's
pretty noticeable.
Jim