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Article #28254Re: Prob with LaserWriter II NTX and font disk
From: Jim Kateley
Date: Wed, 18 May 1988 21:52
Date: Wed, 18 May 1988 21:52
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In article <4843@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes:
>Okay, the concensus is that SuperMac hard drives, which use RLL encoding,
>will not work as a font disk on the LaserWriter II NTX. Everyone seems to
>agree on that point. The next question has to be, what SCSI drives from
>third-party manufacturers DO work with the II NTX?
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
I don't have a list, but there are two main things that the drive must do:
1. It must provide SCSI terminator power.
2. It must be able to report to the printer what size volume it is.
This is done via the SCSI command "Mode Select".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!apple!kateley From: kateley@Apple.COM (Jim Kateley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Prob with LaserWriter II NTX and font disk Message-ID: <10425@apple.Apple.Com> Date: 18 May 88 21:52:01 GMT References: <4843@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: kateley@apple.UUCP (Jim Kateley) Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 19