Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!taco!ccvr1!hgm From: hgm@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: 1.52MB drive Message-ID: <1991Apr25.121013.26696@ncsu.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 12:10:13 GMT References: <177031@netw23.uucp> <6msga2-@rpi.edu> <1991Apr24.012904.7282@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: hgm@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 24 Followers of this thread might be interested in the Teac high density SCSI drive thread in comp.sys.atari.st. In a nutshell, it is a 2.88 meg drive that has a read/write speed approximately 4 times a 720k floppy. Price for the drive is in the neighborhood of $190.00, putting in the same realm as the AE High Density drive, with almost twice the storage. Please don't pester Jack Wine, the poster of the intial message and the summary. I've talked to him, and it's been determined that a "mass buying" isn't really needed. Would it be a simple as generating a mountlist entry, hooking the drive up, and go? I know about the Insite floptical drive, but quantity on them isn't expected to late fall (if that early). This appears to be a nice interim technology, ideal for backups. Hmmm, I wonder if it could be coaxed to read other high density formats (IBM, Next, Mac)? --hal -- hgm@ccvr1.cc.ncsu.edu "Fashion is fascism with a neat haircut." netoprhm@ncsuvm.bitnet