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- From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Flopticals for NeXT machines?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.103550.5956@resonex.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 10:35:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.182310.285@afit.af.mil> <Bt5x28.yF@csn.org>
- Organization: Resonex Inc., Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <Bt5x28.yF@csn.org> lee@tochtli.dvr.co.us (Lee Ward) writes:
- >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.
-
- I have used the Tahiti II for some time. I could complain only about
- relatively high noise level (the optical needs stronger cooling than
- standard disks). I personally have found it disturbing, especially when
- working at night.
-
- -Z.
-