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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: <1978@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 20 May 88 04:54:50 GMT
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Reply-To: ecs165s052@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Greg DeMichillie)
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In article <9364@reed.UUCP> mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) writes:
>There is supposed to be a problem connecting 3rd party drives to the NTX,
>sepcifically a way Apple does some SCSI stuff with their drive.  I don't
>know the details.

The details are that the drive must be able to report it's size when
the LaserWriter Font Utility requests it.  Since this feature is not
used when a drive is connected to a Mac, many drive makers decided not
to implement.

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