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Date: Sun 10-Jan-1991 14:48:02 From: cyliax@ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax) Subject: 2.88Mb external SCSI floppy drive on old cube Since I have an old cube, and I wanted to have a 2.88Mb floppy on my cube, I decided to hook up a 2.88Mb SCSI floppy drive to the cube. It's working. I now have a 2.88Mb SCSI floppy drive hooked to my old style cube running NeXTOS 1.0. So far I have tried to format 720K and 1.44Mb floppies on it and was able to build a filesystem on the 1.44Mb floppy. I don't have any 2.88Mb floppies to try, but expect them to work as well. I did have to write some programs to initialize the drive and format the floppies. -ingo (#2160)
Date: Sun 10-Jan-1991 16:44:50 From: mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) Subject: Re: 2.88Mb external SCSI floppy drive on old cube In article <1991Jan10.094802@ecn.purdue.edu> cyliax@ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax) writes: >Since I have an old cube, and I wanted to have a 2.88Mb floppy on my cube, >I decided to hook up a 2.88Mb SCSI floppy drive to the cube. > What floppy drive are you using? How much was it? Where did you get it? MikeC
Date: Sun 10-Jan-1991 19:10:55 From: cyliax@ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax) Subject: Re: 2.88Mb external SCSI floppy drive on old cube I guess there was more interest than I thought. Well, here are some more - I'm using Teac's FD-235JS-401 2.88Mb SCSI floppy drive, they also have a non-SCSI version, a FD-235J-653. Call Teac to see who your nearest vendor/distributor is. I paid ~$200 for this drive, and I have seen them as high as $230. The non-SCSI version is around $150. You will also need cables and a case with a power supply. For the old Cube, you'll need the SCSI version, and I don't know wether the non-SCSI version will work with the upgraded cube. - This is a SCSI drive, NeXT's drive is not. This drive should work on other systems (Suns, etc.), if you have the drivers. - You will need some programs to configure the SCSI controller on the drive as well as a program to format the floppies. After it's configured/formatted, you can label it with the "disk" utility. - I have not tried to use dump yet. I have used tar, but only on one volume. I have newfs'ed a floppy, mounted it and copied some directories to it. - I have copied a PC-DOS 720Kb disk to a file on the harddisk and used mtools to look and manipulate the DOS files on the image. - This may all change in NeXTOS 2.0, I don't know how much support the OS has for SCSI floppies, it may format the floppies for you. but you'll probably still need to configure the controller on the drive. Hope this helps, -ingo
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