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From: cyliax@ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: 2.88Mb external SCSI floppy drive on old cube
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.094802@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 14:48:02 GMT
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Reply-To: cyliax@ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
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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)
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