10 Oct
2001
10 Oct
'01
6:18 a.m.
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 that
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.
I wouldn't mind having a spare, either -- they're tough to find...
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger