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From: usenet@bellcore.bellcore.com (Poster of News)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCSI Floppies
Summary: DEC scsi floppy ok
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.000642.10620@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 00:06:42 GMT
References: <83Q2020905rV01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1991Feb27.203839.620@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: marc@breeze.UUCP (Marc F Pucci)
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Actually the DEC floppy that you can get for the DEC 3100 is pretty good.
I think we spent about $500 for it (gasp) but it included a lot of
sheet metal and mounting brackets for putting it and 2 other drives
inside the CPU cabinet.  You might be able to get just the floppy
for a more reasonable price.

The advantage of it over others (like the NCR scsi to floppy converter)
is that the DEC doesn't require a mode_select command to set it up
before data access; something to consider if you don't have the source
to the device driver.

Marc Pucci
marc@bellcore.com