[ale] syquest

[Matt McMillin]

Anyone who has questions about Syquest drives, ZIP drives, or Syquest drives
vs. Zip drives should check out the newsgroup "comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.
storage."  Last time I checked, there were several heated discussions about
the relative merits of each.  By now, they should have gotten on to details 
about the new, higher-capacity drives, such as the Jaz drive.  Check it out.
You should find it informative, but don't think you'll be able to decide anything
from what you read (each camp seems pretty devoted.)

The question about using the parallel-to-SCSI device under Linux may have
its answer in the above group, too.  (It's been a couple of weeks since I last
looked there.)

-M

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 From: 	William Mahavier[SMTP:wsm at mathcs.emory.edu]
Sent: 	Tuesday, March 12, 1996 2:44 PM
To: 	ale at cc.gatech.edu
Subject: 	[ale] syquest

>Hmm. looks like the Syquest drives have really gotten better. How much to
>the syquest dries cost now? I was going to get a zip drive but it sounds
>like the syquest beats it hands down. If it doesn't cost much more that is.

Many thank to all who responded to my request for info about scsi
backup devices. I did a little shopping since I posted. Best buys
has the Syquest ez-135 scsi-2 for $299, the zip for $199, and they 
have no disks in stock. I have an ad from Micro-center in Marietta 
that listed the EZ-135 for $239, $19.95, but this was a sale price 
and the sale ended 3/10. I have a catalogue from PC MALL that lists 
the EZ135 at $239 and cartridges for $19.95. Their shipping is $7 
for the first 7 pounds and $1/pound after that and is overnight
delivery. pcmallsales at pc-mall.com or 1-800-555-mall.

For what it is worth, I bought an iomega parallel port tape backup
and it would not talk to my parallel port. I could not get their
tech support number to answer. I took it back and bought a Hewlett
Packard parallel port tape backup T1000E. It installed fine and
backed up about 350 megs and then aborted. Then I got it to backup
10 meg directories and it did that but in four trys a compare always
showed at least one bad copy. Then it refused to backup anything else,
giving a hardware incompatability error. I plan to take it back and
I am pretty well convinced to go with the syquest.

Thanks, Bill