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From: rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: 3d party optical disk drives
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Date: 1 Mar 91 02:23:12 GMT
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[I don't think the first attempt made it, I apologize if you saw this already]

I am considering buying a Next slab and I have benn following with much
interest the ongoing threads about 3d party peripherals.

What about 3d party optical disks? They're SCSI aren't they? Is there a reason
why they would be harder to install than, say, Syquest drives? Would the
formatting utilities work on those? Did anybody try? 

I am especially thinking about $3000 600M drives you can find advertised in
the Mac litterature, like Sony and RICOH drives.

J-F Rit