NeXT MO disks

Jerome Fine replies: Pinnacle sold an OEM drive (the one made by Sony) packaged in their own box. The original Sony SMO S501 consisted on two components - a C501 controller (which was the interface between the host adapter and the actual drive) and the actual D501 drive (which in its original form was a modified ESDI configuration - I don't know if an actual ESDI hard drive could be substituted for the D501 drive) in addition to the external box with a power supply for one drive and controller. Pinnacle called their drive the REO-650 and in a dual configuration it was called an REO-1300. Since I also have an REO-650 and have looked inside, I can verify that on the early models, this was the actual hardware. Obviously, both the S501 and the REO-650 use the identical media. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine