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Article #732Re: Flopticals for NeXT machines?
From: Zenon Fortuna
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:35
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:35
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In article <Bt5x28.yF@csn.org> lee@tochtli.dvr.co.us (Lee Ward) writes: >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. I have used the Tahiti II for some time. I could complain only about relatively high noise level (the optical needs stronger cooling than standard disks). I personally have found it disturbing, especially when working at night. -Z.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!mips!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!data.nas.nasa.gov!taligent!apple!netcomsv!resonex!zenon From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Flopticals for NeXT machines? Message-ID: <1992Aug19.103550.5956@resonex.com> Date: 19 Aug 92 10:35:50 GMT References: <1992Aug11.182310.285@afit.af.mil> <Bt5x28.yF@csn.org> Organization: Resonex Inc., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 22