6 Jun
2009
6 Jun
'09
11:39 p.m.
On 06/06/2009 20:39, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Rumor has it that Brian Lanning may have mentioned
these words:
I've got an RX23 like that. I also have a couple of 5.25" TEAC GFR-55S
drives, a 20MB floptical that can read/write 3.5" MFM disks, a small
TEAC FD235 SCSI 3.5" floppy with motorised eject, and two Silicon
Graphics external SCSI floppy drives that are SCSI. I don't remember
where the GFR-55Ss came from, maybe a Sun. I've never opened the SGI
ones to see how it's done, but I suspect it's another bridge board system.
The trouble with all of these is that the SCSI controller expects a
certain disk layout, typically 512 byte sectors numbered 1 to
<whatever>, and won't be happy with, say, sectors numbered 0 to
<whatever-1> or different sector sizes.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Does anyone make a scsi floppy drive that I could
put in my external
enclosure? Do these even exist? What about zip/jaz/syquest drives?
The only ones I know of were used in DEC machines, it was a standard
floppy drive mounted into a "bridge board" which endowed the lowly
floppy with "Super SCSI Powers!" ;-)