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From: yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 3d party optical disk drives
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.052809.6664@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 05:28:09 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.022312.18145@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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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?
     - Isn't NeXT or Canon providing external ODDs for slabs?

-- 
Noritake Yonezawa [yonezawa@cs.uiuc.edu]
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign