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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!news
- From: lee@tochtli.dvr.co.us (Lee Ward)
- Subject: Re: Flopticals for NeXT machines?
- Message-ID: <Bt5x28.yF@csn.org>
- Sender: news@csn.org (news)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: tochtli.dvr.co.us
- Reply-To: lee@tochtli.dvr.co.us (Lee Ward)
- Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug11.182310.285@afit.af.mil>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 04:42:07 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- In article <1992Aug11.182310.285@afit.af.mil> ekouba@blackbook.afit.af.mil
- (Eric T. Kouba) writes:
- > I've seen recent ads for floptical drives for other computers.
- > Will these require any special widgets or procedures to work
- > with a NeXT station?
-
- We are using the Tahiti II's on an '040 cube and an '040 (turbo) NextStation.
- One is configured as non-removable media. The other, running experimental
- software to export via NFS, is configured as removable media.
-
- The only problems we've seen are that the SCSI driver ALWAYS does many, many
- retries as the floptical spins up. Sometimes, the bus locks up until a SCSI
- timeout occurs (10-20 seconds, it's rare). Other than that, they've performed
- well for us.
-