From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 14 07:56:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA13008 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 07:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA13003 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 07:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA06708 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:56:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA11120; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:53:22 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970914165322.NS35867@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 :^> References: <199709140945.EAA25747@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709140945.EAA25747@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Sep 14, 1997 04:45:58 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)