rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit) (03/01/91)
[I don't think the first attempt made it, I apologize if you saw this already] I am considering buying a Next slab and I have benn following with much interest the ongoing threads about 3d party peripherals. What about 3d party optical disks? They're SCSI aren't they? Is there a reason why they would be harder to install than, say, Syquest drives? Would the formatting utilities work on those? Did anybody try? I am especially thinking about $3000 600M drives you can find advertised in the Mac litterature, like Sony and RICOH drives. J-F Rit
yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa) (03/01/91)
rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit) writes: >I am considering buying a Next slab and I have benn following with much >interest the ongoing threads about 3d party peripherals. >What about 3d party optical disks? They're SCSI aren't they? Is there a reason >why they would be harder to install than, say, Syquest drives? Would the >formatting utilities work on those? Did anybody try? Additional questions: - Are there any 3rd party external ODDs compatible with NeXT 256mb ODDs? - Isn't NeXT or Canon providing external ODDs for slabs? -- Noritake Yonezawa [yonezawa@cs.uiuc.edu] Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) (03/02/91)
In article <1991Mar1.052809.6664@m.cs.uiuc.edu> yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa) writes: >rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit) writes: > >>I am considering buying a Next slab and I have benn following with much >>interest the ongoing threads about 3d party peripherals. > >>What about 3d party optical disks? They're SCSI aren't they? Is there a reason >>why they would be harder to install than, say, Syquest drives? Would the >>formatting utilities work on those? Did anybody try? > >Additional questions: > > - Are there any 3rd party external ODDs compatible with NeXT 256mb ODDs? All the other manufacturers use formats that fit more onto a disk. > - Isn't NeXT or Canon providing external ODDs for slabs? Are you serious? NeXT and Canon aren't even providing optical disks. Why would you want them to provide external optical drives? > >-- >Noritake Yonezawa [yonezawa@cs.uiuc.edu] >Department of Computer Science >University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "WAR is the HEALTH of the STATE" --Albert Jay Nock (I think:-) * **********************************************************************
yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa) (03/03/91)
bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes: >In article <1991Mar1.052809.6664@m.cs.uiuc.edu> yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa) writes: >> - Isn't NeXT or Canon providing external ODDs for slabs? > Are you serious? NeXT and Canon aren't even providing optical disks. >Why would you want them to provide external optical drives? NeXT should be responsible to slab users for the availability of external ODDs. I think optical drives are still great medium as archives. -- Noritake Yonezawa [yonezawa@cs.uiuc.edu] Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign