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- From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer)
- Subject: IOmega 21MB Flopticals & sun4c
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- Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 21:52:46 UTC
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- Just saw an add in the (SF) Chronicle about 21MB Flopticals.
- I (naturally) have a couple questions that I rather doubt the
- fine people at Fry's (Electronics) could answer:
-
- 1. What interface flavors are available? More to the point, do they
- have a SCSI version?
-
- 2. Do they "act" like floppies or hard disks in real usage? If they
- act like hard disks, does anyone have a format.dat entry for them
- and can the SunOS format command do the right thing? If they act
- like floppies, does anyone have a SunOS driver for them yet?
-
- 3. Do they handle the other 3.5" formats as well?
-
- 4. Have anyone priced out the disks yet? I am hoping that they will
- price out like other removable media -- that is, $1/MB, or about
- $20 a piece.
-
- Thanks in advance, and if this has already been talked to death
- here or elsewhere, I appologise in advance, but my news spool
- is short-lived.
-
- --
- Nick Sayer <mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us> | "Don't try this at home, kids. This
- N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | should only be done by trained, pro-
- +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | fessional idiots."
- PGP 2.1 public key on request | -- Plucky Duck
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