[Coco] MM/1 question

[Mark Marlette]

At 09:29 PM 11/7/2003 -0500, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

There was SpeedDisk for OSK, Brian Thompson if I remember correctly. I 
still have it at work. Works just fine. The good ole Dsave from one disk to 
another works too. Boisy installed a SCSI card in our G96 system and got a 
IOmega JAZ drive on it. We came from a ST225. GREAT JOB runs perfectly.

Mark
Cloud-9

>In a message dated 11/7/03 5:22:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>bdevries at gil.com.au writes:
>
> > If the formatter wont format to less than the full size of the drive, I'm
> >  stuck with using the 20MB drive as the boot drive, and the 1GB as the data
> >  drive. YUK! Or booting from a floppy YUK,YUK,YUK!!!
>
>Well, what's wrong with that?  Assuming both HDs will fit in the MM/1 case
>OK, and you don't just have a temporary lashup, booting off the little 
>drive and
>then transferring every operation over to the big 1G drive should work fine.
>
>Logically like booting from a floppy, but much faster and convenient.
>FWIW, I did kind of run up against the space limits on my then-huge 40MB HD.
>Actually, I hit OSK's FAT or granule table limits -- can no longer create a
>single file over a certain size (a couple of MB), even though I have 4 or 
>5 MB
>free.
>
>We could use a de-fragger for OSK, but who would trust it?  Or the drive?
>--Mike K.
>
>
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