IOmega 21MB Flopticals & sun4c

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From: Nick Sayer
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:52

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Just saw an add in the (SF) Chronicle about 21MB Flopticals.
I (naturally) have a couple questions that I rather doubt the
fine people at Fry's (Electronics) could answer:

1. What interface flavors are available? More to the point, do they
have a SCSI version?

2. Do they "act" like floppies or hard disks in real usage? If they
act like hard disks, does anyone have a format.dat entry for them
and can the SunOS format command do the right thing? If they act
like floppies, does anyone have a SunOS driver for them yet?

3. Do they handle the other 3.5" formats as well?

4. Have anyone priced out the disks yet? I am hoping that they will
price out like other removable media -- that is, $1/MB, or about
$20 a piece.

Thanks in advance, and if this has already been talked to death
here or elsewhere, I appologise in advance, but my news spool
is short-lived.

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Subject: IOmega 21MB Flopticals & sun4c
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