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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: SGI-Tapes and CD-ROM
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1993Jan6.175433.3702@nic.csu.net>
- Distribution: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 07:00:41 GMT
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- In <1993Jan6.175433.3702@nic.csu.net> vqueved@neptune.uucp (Victor Quevedo) writes:
-
- | I am interesting in finding out if you can connect various Tape Drives and
- | CDROMS to a SGI Indigo.
- |
- | 1. Will a Sun compatible Tape 1/4" (150) drive work on
- | an SGI?
-
- Almost certainly.
-
- | 2. Will a Sun, Apple, NeXT CDROM drive work on an SGI?
-
- The Sun drives will work on Indigos, at least for most people (not
- all) for normal use, and for some people, for software installation.
-
- The Apple brand drives are hopeless, they violate the scsi spec
- too much. The NeXT drives might work for filesystem stuff; and
- possibly s/w installs on the r4k Indigo, but not installs on other
- systems.
-
- | 3. If they do work will they be able to read the SGI
- | specific inst format?
-
- Yes, as long as they are on an SGI system.
- --
- 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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