10 Oct
2001
10 Oct
'01
7:17 a.m.
On Oct 10, 14:18, Roger Merchberger wrote:
that
Rumor has it that Pete Turnbull may have mentioned
these words:
>Teac made SCSI floppies which were used by SGI and others; one of my
>Indigos has one, and a couple of friends have them too. The floppy is a
>more-or-less standard FD-235, except that most have a motorised eject.
The
SCSI card is an
add-on, albeit a very compact one.
If you don't want the SCSI cards, I can use them :-)
VAXStations use them, too -- it's basically a SCSI to MFM bridgeboard is really quite compatible -- when my floppy drive
died on my
SCSI-enabled
PeeCee, I snagged my spare VAX bridgeboard w/1.44
floppy, set the SCSI ID
&
slid it onto the chain... worked flawlessly.
I doubt the bridgeboard would work for a 2.88Meg floppy, tho -- dunno if
the "BIOS" (for lack of a better term) supports that density as it didn't
exist until well after the board was built.
Possibly not. I have a DEC one that certainly does, but it's much larger
than the TEAC ones, which fit under the drive in a small frame the same
form factor as the drive. They're so small and thin that at first glance
you might not notice there's an "extra bit".
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York