11 Oct
2005
11 Oct
'05
1:25 p.m.
On Oct 11 2005, 12:03, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 10/11/2005 at 9:24 AM Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>>How about SCSI floppy drives?
>
> The problem with SCSI floppies is essentially the same--addressing
is on a
sector number basis, not CHS. So the drives have limited
format recognition capabilities. I've never seen a 5.25' SCSI floppy
I have a couple, from SGI equipment IIRC. They're basically a standard
floppy with a bridge board fitted, and so are 3.5" TEAC floppies from
SGI workstations. The Insite flopticals, though, are made as a native
SCSI device.
But a DECstation 2100/3100 comes with a floppy drive
hooked to a
board
with a 34-pin floppy header, and then the SCSI bus
from the
motherboard
plugs into the translator board. Could something like
this be used?
Up to a point. You can certainly put either a 5.25" or a 3.5" drive on
those boards, but as far as I remember, they still only recognise
fairly standard (read "IBM PC/MS-DOS style") formats -- certainly
that's true of the floptical and SGI devices. Anything with sector
numbers starting at zero is hard to handle, for example.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York