25 Dec
1998
25 Dec
'98
12:48 a.m.
On Dec 25, 14:16, Sergey Svishchev wrote:
Subject: Re: SCSI floppies
On Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 07:44:19PM -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >Hi! I've got a question: has anyone ever heard of a SCSI floppy
drive? I
> >was talking to someone about one, and he said
he'd never even heard of
one,
> >and when I thought about it, I hadn't
either.
>
> Yes. I'm thinking that the NeXT slabs used 2.88Mb SCSI floppies,
but...
DEC RX23 and RX26 (1.44MB and 2.88MB respectively) are SCSI floppy
drives.
SGI used SCSI floppies too. The SGI ones are TEAC FD235 units with a motor
eject, and a small daughterboard fitted to the bottom. SGI also used
INSITE 3.5" flopticals which can be used as SCSI floppies. And Eltec (in
Germany?) made SCSI add-on boards so that standard floppies could be put on
a SCSI bus.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York