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From: robinb@bhpmrl.oz.au (Robin Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: optical drives on Apollos
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.075705.1278@bhpmrl.oz.au>
Date: 1 Feb 91 07:57:05 GMT
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Does anybody have any experience using optical r/w drives on Apollo's?
I'm told that we cannot connect them to our DN3500/4500/10k's as while
these machines do have SCSI interfaces there is no software support
for SCSI based optical drives.  This means that we have to buy a DN2500
or one of the new 400 series machines.  If anyone has any info on third
party drives I'd be very interested as the devices HP are offering are
roughly 300Mb per side and I've heard that Maxdor make drives with 1/2
a Gbyte per side.  I've also heard that there are problems with the Sony
drives, if anybody could confirm (or refute) this I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance
Robin

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