Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!prism!gt1546c From: gt1546c@prism.gatech.EDU (Gatliff, William A.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: 3rd-party (MacIntosh) Hardware Question Message-ID: <23106@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 1 Mar 91 04:58:55 GMT References: <1991Mar1.022312.18145@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 8 >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? BTW, what protocol (SCSI, et al) do the internal/external Mac floppy drives use? If it *just happened* to be SCSI, I wonder.... Could you use one instead/in addition to/ the NeXT floppy? Granted, they won't run 2.88 MB......:)