Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:53:22 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy Driver Problem Solved :^> Message-ID: <19970914165322.NS35867@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709140945.EAA25747@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Sep 14, 1997 04:45:58 -0500 References: <darius@senet.com.au> <199709140945.EAA25747@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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As dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > Teac makes a SCSI floppy, AKA: Floptical. Does the normal foppy densities > (not sure about 2.88M) plus 20M with the right disk. > > They appear on the surplus market sometimes for about $150. All SGI systems > with an optional floppy drive use them. About the worst piece of junk i've ever seen. Together with SGI's bright idea to mount them without a dust-protection flap, they hardly ever made it longer than 14 days without cleaning, even for plain floppies. Let alone the optical stuff. And, they were _dog_ slow. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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