SCSI-based floppy drives (3.5 or 5.25)

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Wed Oct 18 16:18:12 2000

On Oct 18, 10:47, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any SCSI-based *floppy* drives either in 3.5 or 5.25 (3.5
> preferred) format? I might need one for a project I am working on...

The well-known ones seem to be the flopticals made by Insite (20MB SCSI-1,
but can also read/write 1.44M and 720K floppies). They turn up from time
to time, usually quite cheap. However, TEAC made a 3.5" SCSI floppy (with
motorised eject) -- sorry, I can't remember the TEAC part number -- which
SGI used in some Indigo workstations. They also used it in an external box
for Indigos and Indys. DEC made an adaptor for RX23 (3.5") drives, which I
know works wth generic 3.5" floppies (I've got one somewhere); there was
also an adaptor by a German company called Eltec.

BTW, SCSI-2 should work fine on a SCSI-1 system. You just won't get some
of the extra twiddly SCSI-2 features.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Wed Oct 18 2000 - 16:18:12 BST

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