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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: (Q) 20M floptical driver; reading DOS format
- Message-ID: <pr01h6s@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Keywords: floptical DOS format SCSI driver
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <vthrc.716449595@brolga>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 07:06:10 GMT
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- In <vthrc.716449595@brolga> vthrc@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Danny Thomas) writes:
- | we're contemplating the purchase of an XS24, but for now
- | we're speaking as people who never touched one and have minimal UN*X
- | experience. Todays question: is there driver software available for an
- | InSite 20M floptical drive (SCSI interface), and if so a way to
- | read/write DOS formatted disks? I guess it is similar to a CDROM in being
- | a removable SCSI disk, but also happens to be writable.
-
- Support for the Insite is planned in a "future release". Yes, the
- current msdosd stuff will work on it, and presumably SoftPC will
- also work. I would imagine the public domain mtools will also
- work.
-
- It isn't even remotely similar to CD-ROM.
-
- If you can get a driver manual out of Insite, you could probably
- hack up mtools to use the ds (devscsi) driver and access it
- directly, at least in the normal PC densities. In the 20 Mbyte
- mode it sort of works with the dksc driver as of 4.0.5, but their
- silly modesense that is required before you can do certain things
- in high density mode may be a problem.
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- 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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