[SPAM] - Re: IOmega - Found word(s) cartridge in the Text body

Jerome Fine replies: Not sure if this helps, but Iomega produced a SCSI "insider" (if that is the correct name used for marketing) which was a drive with a removable cartridge of 196608 blocks. The drives were the size of a 3 1/2" disk drive and the media were just a bit bigger than a 3 1/2" floppy and about twice as thick. The drives were fully SCSI compatible as far as my experience is worth. I first purchased a drive around 1997 and the date on the files supplied with the drives is April 10, 1997. The primary reason I used the drives was to replace an RX50 on a PDP-11/73 when the RD53 drive was replaced with a 100 MByte SCSI drive using a CQD 200/TM. It was very strange having a removable cartridge that had a larger capacity than the RD53 with the physical size of an RX23. The problem of backing up all the files had more capacity than the RD53. The drives initially served as the exchange media between the PDP-11/73 and the PC running Windows 95 on a Pentium 166 - later upgraded to a Pentium III running W98SE. Shortly after that, the Sony SMO S-501 (also with a SCSI interface) became much lower in cost, was much more reliable and had a 295 MByte cartridge (actually 590 with 295 MBytes available on each side with only one side available at a time - the Sony drives were NOT double sided). Zane Healy can comment on the problems with some models - probably later versions since when I used the Iomega drives, I never had a problem. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine