Using a third party 650M MO SCSI drive (formatted under DOS) on the NeXT

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From: Paul S. Sears
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:32

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Has anyone sucessfully mounted a third party MO drive that was formatted under  
DOS?  A user has some data that was generated on a PC and stored on the  
optical disk that they formatted as a DOS High capacity removable media.   
Since it is a standard SCSI device, plugging it into the NeXT was not the  
problem.  The problem is that we are unable to mount the disk (even under  
NS3.0 which supposedly supports DOS and Mac formats).  Does anyone know of a  
utility or driver that would allow us to read and write to this optical?  I  
tried using FloppyWorks but that only supports 720K & 1.44M Dos floppies (but  
it does support High capacity Mac drives!) and various other utilities but I  
could not get the disk mounted... any suggestions???????

I also tried to format the disk for DOS under the NeXT but the BuildDOS app  
only supports 720K and 1.44M floppies.....

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The University of Houston   * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
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