128 MByte Optical Drives and NeXT?

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From: Eric Cafritz
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 13:53

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In article <1j6ts2INNmvg@spock.dis.cccd.edu> maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu writes:

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>In article <1993Jan15.125044.14808@linus.mitre.org> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org> (William Herndon) writes:
>>    Does anyone have an experience in connecting a 128 MByte R/W optical
>>    to a NeXT?  Can we expect that SCSI versions of these devices will
>>    work without problems?
>>
>>    Thanks much.
>
>I've tested the Ocean Vista 128 and the Vista 256 and they both work great 
>on the NeXT.  The only problem I had was that when I did a BuildDisk and
>tried to boot from the optical it didn't work at all.  After putzing 
>around with it I concluded that BuildDisk in NS 3.0 doesn't work.  Can
>anyone confirm this or offer their experiences?
>
I use a PLI 128, and NS 3.0 boots fine from it, after an ordinary
BuildDisk.  I use the -rw flag in the boot command.  I have had no problems
with the PLI, but the fan is noisy.
{uunet, attmail!erix!eric} or eric@erix.demon.co.uk

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