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From: finn@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Lee Samuel Finn)
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Subject: Re: my NeXT won't boot with PLI Superfloppy
Keywords: PLI floppy superfloppy 2.8 SCSI NeXT bootfail
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Date: 24 Apr 91 21:01:55 GMT
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In article <1991Apr24.050058.677@rfengr.com> brian@coconut.com writes:
>
>We recently got our external PLI superfloppy as well and have similar
>problems getting the NeXTcube to boot.  It's a 68040-upgrade cube, 8mb
>RAM, 340MB HD, optical drive...
>
>I'd say the machine boots correctly about 25% of the time.  The rest
>of the time I have to Command-Command-tilde and then type "b"...
>
>I too, followed the PLI manual instructions to the letter.  And even
>called PLI.  Talked to someone who didn't know much about the NeXT...
>
>-- brian dear
>   coconut computing, inc.
>   brian@coconut.com

Just for the record, I purchased a PLI superfloppy 2.8 and it
installed and worked like a charm. First time, everytime. My cube is
the same as described above, except I've also got a printer.