Syquest Removable Drive

David K. Levine

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Nov 17, 1994, 3:42:34 PM11/17/94

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Has anyone successfully used Syquest 105M removable (SCSI) drives with NT?
The 44 and 88M drives are on the hardware compatability list, but for various
reasons I'd like to get the 105M drive. I'd appreciate hearing anyone who has
had experience with Syquest on NT, and any comments about how they like these
drives.
Thanks

Andrew E. Lowman

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Nov 18, 1994, 10:26:01 AM11/18/94

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I've been wondering about this as well, but I'm more interested in the 270M drives.
I'd appreciate any comments on these drives, under NT and in general.

Thanks in advance.

Andrew

Bertrand Leroy

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Nov 18, 1994, 10:42:42 AM11/18/94

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I use the 270M drive without any problem under NT 3.1. I format under dos
and use it normally under nt.

cheers

Bertrand
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Tim Edwards

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Nov 18, 1994, 4:58:59 PM11/18/94

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Yes. We use a 105 SCSI model w/ NT 3.5 daily and it works fine. SCSI is
the SoundBlaster SB16 SCSI.

tim

Valentin Bazavan

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Nov 18, 1994, 4:51:01 PM11/18/94

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David K. Levine (lev...@econ.sscnet.ucla.edu) wrote:
: Has anyone successfully used Syquest 105M removable (SCSI) drives with NT?

I use the Syquest 3105S on NT 3.1. The only problem is
that if you format it for NTFS you must a cartridge
inserted at start-up (otherwise the boot time is very long),
and you won't be able to remove it until you shut down your system.
(Support for removable media under both NT and OS2 is
lacking, to say the least.)

Valentin Bazavan

David K. Levine

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Nov 19, 1994, 4:11:44 AM11/19/94

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Thanks.
I have the impression that if I format the drive for FAT I don't need to keep
the cartridge in the drive all the time. I'm not going to boot from the
drive, just use it to transfer data to another computer.

In article <3aj7k5$d...@hpindda.cup.hp.com> baz...@cup.hp.com (Valentin
Bazavan) writes:>From: baz...@cup.hp.com (Valentin Bazavan)
>Subject: Re: Syquest Removable Drive
>Date: 18 Nov 1994 21:51:01 GMT

Richard Morris

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Nov 19, 1994, 10:55:17 AM11/19/94

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In <3aih29$g...@news.CCIT.Arizona.EDU> low...@arizona.edu (Andrew E.
Lowman) writes:

Not sure about the Syquest drives, but I use a Fujitsu 230 Meg
Magneto-Optical Drive without any problems.

David K. Levine

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Nov 19, 1994, 4:46:16 AM11/19/94

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Thanks.
Valentin Bazavan says he's formatted the drives for NTFS, and can't
remove them without shutting down the machine. This would be disasterous for
the application I have in mind (backup)...My understanding is that removable
drives formatted for NTFS can't be removed but removable drives formatted for
FAT can. Are your drives formatted for FAT, and if so can you remove them
without shutting down?

In article <3aj833$g...@crl7.crl.com> cybe...@crl.com (Tim Edwards) writes:
>From: cybe...@crl.com (Tim Edwards)

>Subject: Re: Syquest Removable Drive

>Date: 18 Nov 1994 13:58:59 -0800

Dan Sundin

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Nov 19, 1994, 1:58:47 PM11/19/94

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I'm currently using an external SyQuest 105 with my NT 3.5 system.
It's connected via an Adaptec 1542CF and works fine.

Dan

William J. Keaton

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Nov 20, 1994, 1:27:00 PM11/20/94

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Andrew and David;

I should be able to provide some interesting commenst on the Syquest
drives very soon. My Syquest 270 SCSI should be here on Tuesday or Wednesday.
I'll post any problems, etc. here.
Wish me luck!

WJaKe

I work for the Voice, I'm not _The_ Voice.

Robert Schlabbach

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Nov 20, 1994, 5:02:32 PM11/20/94

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I'm using a SyQuest SQ3270S hooked up to an adaptec AHA1542CF SCSI host under
NT 3.5 and it works just fine, just two "quirks" to mention:

1. Don't use NT's DISK MANAGER to partition new cartridges. It gives you
8K clusters when formatting to FAT, use the DOS utility SQPREP that's
supplied with the drive, it'll give you 4K clusters.

2. When you have a write-protected cartridge in the drive at startup, you
can't READ from it (NT tells you it's write protected when you try a "dir")
until you do a "chkdsk" on the drive. NT is a bit strange here...

I think those cartridges are better formatted to FAT since a) you can read
them on DOS machines afterwards and b) you can exchange them while running
NT. And since NT 3.5 supports long filenames under FAT the only thing NTFS
would give you extra is security, which you can have by removing the cartridge
and locking it away. ;^)

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Technical University of Berlin, Germany

and...@hundun.cnd.mcgill.ca

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Nov 27, 1994, 5:02:37 PM11/27/94

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Hi There!

I've just installed NT 3.5 on our 90 MHz Pentium and everything seems to work fine except the I can't seem to access our 270 MB SyQuest (SQ3105S). We've got a TMC-3260 SCSI controller which seems to detect the SyQuest. If I try to format it as FAT using the format d: /fs:fat command it tells me that it can't do it because the media is to large (which doesn't seem resonable to me!). Do I need a specific SyQuest driver for NT? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

Andrew Munk
Dept. of Physiology
McGill University

and...@hundun.cnd.mcgill.ca