Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!mindseye!izumi From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Answer to External MO Disk Drive question. Message-ID: <1991Jun28.145106.17420@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 14:51:06 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 30 In article mat@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Mat Watson) writes: > >Another person I've talked to at NeXT (who impressed me as knowing >what he was talking about) has obtained and installed a Canon 512MB >external SCSI OD on his NeXT. He told me the insallation process he [deleted...] > >Important note: THE EXTERNAL CANON DRIVE IS UNABLE TO READ DISKS >WRITTEN WITH THE INTERAL CANON DRIVE FOUND ON THE CUBES. THIS >INCLUDES SOFTWARE RELEASED BY NEXT ON MAGNETO-OPTICAL DISKS. The low >level format for the internal disk is different than that used by the >newer external SCSI drives even though the optical drive unit itself >is essentially the same. Does this incompatibility have to do with OD formatting changes Canon made in Japanese NeXT OS 2.1J, rendering 2.1J OD incompatible with 2.1 system? Someone from Japan posted such a note in several postings back. By any chance then, are OD's initialized on 2.1J compatible with the Canon's external SCSI OD drive? Is that why Canon changed OD filesystem for 2.1J? Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (415) 642-6440 Fax: (415) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu NeXTmail: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu