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Dan Aylward writes:

>Also, it will be easy to hook up an external floppy via the SCSI2 port.  

Umm.. yes, it will be trivially easy to "hook up" a SCSI floppy to
the Falcon's SCSI port.

However..  has anyone ever *priced* a SCSI floppy drive..?

Has anyone even SEEN a SCSI floppy drive for sale..?

(I've asked these questions before, but never gotten much information
so I just took a browse through the new Computer Shopper.  Couldn't find
a single place selling SCSI floppy drives.  Of course, since CS is mostly
PC stuff, I'm not surprised.  It's been said that a Macintosh external
floppy drive might work..  could be.. I don't know squat about Macs..)

Secondly, a SCSI floppy would have to have a SCSI device driver installed,
just like a SCSI hard drive.  The desktop is not going to just automatically
recoginize it as "Drive B"..
 
Would something like ICD's utilities for the Link work with a SCSI floppy?
Maybe..    does ICD sell their Link utilities separately..?

Will AHDI 5.0 work with SCSI floppy drives..?  If not, will Atari think it
much of a priority to modify it to work with them..?  Perhaps the Falcon
will have to come with a new set of hard drive utilities to work with the
internal IDE hard drive anyway, and maybe those will also work with an
external SCSI floppy drive..   does anyone who already have a Falcon
know if that's true or not..?

That's a lot of open questions..  yes, you can "hook up" a LOT of SCSI
devices, but getting them to do anything is the trick...
 
BobR