NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/next/hardware/1133

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From: [e-mail] (Russel Shermer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: External Bernoulli's and DOS/unix disk formats
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Date: 24 Jul 92 20:50:51 GMT
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Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center - White Oak
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We installed a 90 Meg Bernoulli drive on our NeXT and
have been quite happy with it until today.  I inserted a disk
that had been formatted on a DOS machine and found that the
NeXT can't read it.  A window opens up as normal and the NeXT
recognizes the disk is a DOS disk but can't read or write it.

You may not be surprised, but considering that Bernoulli's transport
across different unix systems, the Mac can read DOS Bernoullis, and
the NeXT can read DOS floppies.  It WOULD seem reasonable that the
DOS drivers on the NeXT could handle any drive on the SCSI bus.

Is there a special driver one must get from either NeXT or Iomega to
remedy this?

Thanks.

    ---Russ Shermer