SCSI floppies - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Dec 1998

On Dec 25, 14:16, Sergey Svishchev wrote:
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  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.
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Pete                                            Peter Turnbull
                                                Dept. of Computer Science
                                                University of York