Re: Flopticals for NeXT machines?

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From: Lee Ward
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 04:42

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In article <1992Aug11.182310.285@afit.af.mil> ekouba@blackbook.afit.af.mil  
(Eric T. Kouba) writes:
> I've seen recent ads for floptical drives for other computers.
> Will these require any special widgets or procedures to work
> with a NeXT station?

We are using the Tahiti II's on an '040 cube and an '040 (turbo) NextStation.
One is configured as non-removable media. The other, running experimental  
software to export via NFS, is configured as removable media.

The only problems we've seen are that the SCSI driver ALWAYS does many, many  
retries as the floptical spins up. Sometimes, the bus locks up until a SCSI  
timeout occurs (10-20 seconds, it's rare). Other than that, they've performed  
well for us.

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