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- From: dwong@sgi.com (David Wong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Questions about SGI floppy drive
- Message-ID: <nsji454@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:19:35 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.184356.18370@cs.wayne.edu>
- Sender: news@zuni.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <1992Jul28.184356.18370@cs.wayne.edu> atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems) writes:
- >I am considering buying SGI's internal floppy drive for an Indigo.
- >Does anyone have any experience with this drive? I intend to use it
- >mainly to archive data generated by software running under IRIX. Tape
- >is inconvenient for this purpose since 1/4-inch drives don't support
- >updating an existing archive. 8-character filenames are too
- >restrictive, so I would want to use floppies formatted as efs volumes,
- >not DOS volumes. Among my concerns are:
- >
- >1). How do you format floppies under IRIX?
-
- use fx.
-
- >
- >2). Do you have to be superuser and use the mount(1M) command to mount
- >floppies, or will msdosd do this for you even if they are efs volumes?
-
- yes, you have to be superuser to mount a EFS floppy. msdosd in the current
- release won't work on EFS floppy.
-
- >
- >3). Although this is an internal drive, is max SCSI cable length an
- >issue here? This Indigo already has two external devices attached, a
- >CD-ROM drive and a 1/4-inch tape drive.
- >
- >Any helpful information will be appreciated. E-mail replies welcome.
- >
- >Dale Atems
- >E-mail: atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu
-