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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: flopticals...
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 11:20:33 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- fmlin@terapin.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
-
- >I am intersted in gettin the floptical drive from Mass Micro. The reason is, I
- >think it looks the best... How ever, it doesn't seem to have a "eject" button.
-
- Wrong floptical. Those are really Magneto-Opticals. Insite has a registered
- trademark on "floptical", or at least they are brave enough to put (R) after
- it on their documentation. The drives that the Ramfast works with use Insite
- mechanisms, which all have a real eject button.
-
- >1. Can the RamFAST floptical ROMs ( is it "i" or "j"? ) eject disks by issueing
- >a SCSI eject command?
-
- SCSI has _no_ eject command (stupid but true). They do eject disks by using an
- extension Insite came up with to the SCSI Start/Stop Device command, which is
- not exactly kosher but I don't see as how they had much choice.
-
- It's "j". "i" works but has some nasty bugs that did not endear Drew to me when
- I found them. Posting them on GEnie in a rather noisy manner did not endear me
- to Drew, either...
-
- >2. Does the AE and Tulin flopticals have a eject button? I suppose I'll have
- >to get one of these...
-
- Yes, they are Insite mechanisms so they have a physical eject button that
- always works (no need for unbent paper clip "abortion pins" as with the
- Apple 3.5 drive).
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
-