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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Rewriteable Optical Drives for the Apollo
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Date: 7 Jun 91 19:37:04 GMT
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As much as I like Workstation Solutions and admire their 
technical support ... I feel compelled to point out that
their OSF600E is simply a Sony SMO-S501 magneto-optical
drive plus an external SCSI cable. All of the SCSI drive
software is either built into your workstation (ie. DN2500
or HP/Apollo 9000 series 400) or it isn't. Since HP/Apollo
has never provided a method for integrating disk drivers
into their OS's all any vendor can do it to sell you a
raw disk drive -- which you *hope* is compatible with your
system.


 -- David Krowitz

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