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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Subject: Re: Flopticals...any successful usage out there?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.022446.1216@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 02:24:46 GMT
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- kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:
-
- >Would this, if it were true, mean that you could use the floptical and the
- >forthcoming MS-DOS FST to read standard MS-DOS disks w/o getting a Superdrive
- >and card? Would the SCSI driver support daisy-chaining such a device from an
- >existing hard drive?
-
- Yes it would -- IF the drivers are smart enough to deal with unpartitioned
- SCSI media. The RamFast currently is not, but chances are CVT will soon swallow
- its pride and fix that. I didn't have a chance to call Tulin for current info
- about the DMA SCSI situation today, so I won't know what's happening on that
- front until tomorrow. It's possible that we may already have a SCSI FDHD with
- the DMA SCSI card, but I don't know if it can handle unpartitioned media yet.
-
- I don't know ANYTHING about the AE product except that it is "available". If
- anybody knows more, _please_ tell the net. If I see something on GEnie, I will
- post it here. Ok?
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
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