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From: blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Optical Drives for Iris'
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Date: 9 Mar 90 12:45:03 GMT
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   You said 1024 bytes/sector is not filesystem compatible----yet!
How long until it is?  How long until the ZCAV media is available?
If Sony doesn't support this media, who else is making the MO drives.
As far as I have seen Sony is the only one making them.  Buying a
drive from SGI at twice the cost everyone else sells it for doesn't
sound appeling either.
   We are looking at buying a MO drive shortly after our 4D/210VGX
arrives, which hopefully will only be a few months from now.
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	Brent L. Bates
	NASA-Langley Research Center
	M.S. 294
	Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
	(804) 864-2854
	E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov