2.88 MB floppy drive, scsi? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Oct 2001

On Oct 10, 14:18, Roger Merchberger wrote:
...
  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
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  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. 
Possibly not.  I have a DEC one that certainly does, but it's much larger
than the TEAC ones, which fit under the drive in a small frame the same
form factor as the drive.  They're so small and thin that at first glance
you might not notice there's an "extra bit".

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York