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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Questions about SGI floppy drive
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Jul28.184356.18370@cs.wayne.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 01:58:15 GMT
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- In <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:
-
- DAT is like 9 track, it supports appending to archives (r and u options
- work, that is).
-
- | 1). How do you format floppies under IRIX?
-
- fx -x (you don't need to be superuser though, for floppies).
-
- | 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?
-
- msdosd will mount EFS floppies as well, although this works better under
- 4.0.5 than earlier versions.
-
- | 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.
-
- If it is internal, there are no cable length issues (unless the bus
- is already too long, of course).
-
- One other comment: the floppy drive is excruciatingly slow...
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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