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From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 3d party optical disk drives
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.013333.20051@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 91 01:33:33 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.022312.18145@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Mar1.052809.6664@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Mar1.052809.6664@m.cs.uiuc.edu> yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa) writes:
>rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit) writes:
>
>>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? 
>
>Additional questions:
>
>     - Are there any 3rd party external ODDs compatible with NeXT 256mb ODDs?

     All the other manufacturers use formats that fit more onto a disk.

>     - Isn't NeXT or Canon providing external ODDs for slabs?

     Are you serious?  NeXT and Canon aren't even providing optical disks.
Why would you want them to provide external optical drives?
>
>-- 
>Noritake Yonezawa [yonezawa@cs.uiuc.edu]
>Department of Computer Science
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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