6 Jun
2009
6 Jun
'09
3:39 p.m.
Rumor has it that Brian Lanning may have mentioned these words:
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!" ;-)
They're tough to find (well, maybe not _around here_) and I do not know if
they supported booting from them; but they do exist.
In times past, I owned SCSI Zip drives, one each internal & external. Not
sure if I even still have them; but they certainly exist and might be easy
(if not cheap) to acquire thru ePay. I had kept the internal one for one of
my CoCos "just in case" I acquired a SCSI card for it, but now that I have
IDE, I'm torn whether to set it up with an available IDE zip drive I have,
setup an IDE Castlewood Orb for that purpose, or inform my wife that I
"Really Need[TM]" an upgrade for a my Nikon D70, so I could use my 1G
compact flash cards currently allocated to that task for the CoCo.
Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
6 Jun
6 Jun
3:48 p.m.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Roger
Merchberger<zmerch-cctalk at 30below.com> wrote:
Rumor has it that Brian Lanning may have mentioned
these words:
In times past, I owned SCSI Zip drives, one each internal & external. Not
sure if I even still have them; but they certainly exist and might be easy
(if not cheap) to acquire thru ePay.
They show up on ebay all the time. They're on the shopping list as
well. This external scsi enclosure was sort of intended to hold all
sorts of removable scsi contraptions that I wanted to play with.
I had kept the internal one for one of
my CoCos "just in case" I acquired a SCSI card for it, but now that I have
IDE, I'm torn whether to set it up with an available IDE zip drive I have,
setup an IDE Castlewood Orb for that purpose, or inform my wife that I
"Really Need[TM]" an upgrade for a my Nikon D70, so I could use my 1G
compact flash cards currently allocated to that task for the CoCo.
I guess a zip or jaz drive formatted to fat32 should work with file
exchange since it seems to know about PC floppy disks. Does this
sound right?
brian
7:39 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!" ;-)
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