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From: schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Sony-3100 optical SCSI drive, anybody done it yet?
Message-ID: <11486@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 90 19:37:02 GMT
References: <10530@saturn.ADS.COM>
Reply-To: schur@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Sean Schur)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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In article <10530@saturn.ADS.COM> xanthian@saturn.ads.com (Metafont Consultant Account) writes:
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>Meandering around the net today, I learned that Sony has an optical
>disk drive available that is a SCSI beast.  Anybody know 1) if
>(presumably) this is a rewritable drive, 2) any stats on it, and most
>important, 3) has anybody hooked one up to our favorite microcomputer
>yet?

Briwall (mail order house) has been advertising 3 different optical disk
drives for a couple months now, they call them "optical erasable drive". 
Their sizes are approx. 550MB, 680MB and 1 Gibabyte. The prices range from
$3500-$4500 with new cartriges for about $350 each. Yes, you can take out 
the disk and put in a new one, simple as a 3.5" disk, in case you fill up
your 1 Gig too fast.

I called up Briwall's tech line for some answers. They said the drives are
actually made for Macs (too bad) but there are currently 3 companies supporting
them with SCSI controllers for the Amiga (I think one was GVP, but I'm not 
sure). I originally saw the ads in Amiga World. 

I have no affiliation with Briwall or Amiga World.

- Sean Schur