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From: ecs165s052@deneb.ucdavis.edu (0000;0000015000;4000;250;216;ecs165s)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Prob with LaserWriter II NTX and font disk
Message-ID: <1965@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 19 May 88 01:04:12 GMT
References: <4843@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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Reply-To: ecs165s052@deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (Greg DeMichillie)
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In article <4843@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes:
>Okay, the concensus is that SuperMac hard drives, which use RLL encoding,
>will not work as a font disk on the LaserWriter II NTX.  Everyone seems to
>agree on that point.  The next question has to be, what SCSI drives from
>third-party manufacturers DO work with the II NTX?  Buying an Apple drive
>shouldn't be the only answer.
>

I've used an Everex EMAC-20 as a font disk for about a month now with no
problems.  Just use the LaserWriter Font Utility to initialize the disk and
away you go!


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