jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) (09/25/90)
Is there any way to add an internal floppy drive to an old cube? (I can move my Maxtor to another enclosure, so space is not a problem.) Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob
smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (William V. Smith) (09/25/90)
I cannot find *any* reference in official NeXT literature about the internal floppy being available. The price list does not give a separate part number for the 2.88 Mb drive. PLI does not offer an internal version of the SuperFloppy 2.8. So. . . it looks like you have to go with the external floppy drive for now. At least that's all I can find now. Anybody from NeXT care to comment on future availability of internal floppy drives? We have a NeXT server which we built from one of the old network system machines (came with board + 40 meg swap drive) by adding a WREN VI drive. It has no optical, so it would be nice to have the floppy drive internal. -Bill-
madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) (09/27/90)
I called NeXT and asked and they said there was no upgrade path to an internal floppy. They (he) claimed that it was too much trouble for installation. I suspect the real hassle is what to do with the old 330M full height, since you need a half height to make room for the floppy. Would NeXT replace it? Would you just pay for a new drive? etc. It would be nice if you could get an internal one since it should be cheaper, but that savings would likely be offset by the cost of doing something about the full-height hard disk. The external drive is fine by me, except that it seems a bit overpriced ($499 and you have to spend another $50 on a cable!), and I am a little reluctant to get one from an independant company ever since I bought a CubeFloppy 1.4 and sent it back after being rather disappointed. How do we know that the external will work just as well as the official NeXT internal? Is PLI using the identical SCSI floppy board that NeXT is, or are they rolling their own? If NeXT or PLI people are listening, a few answers might be nice. NeXT in general has seemed rather silent on the net, at a rather crucial time for the survival of NeXT. I'd expect a little more participation than this. After all, isn't comp.sys.next a prime example of "Interpersonal Computing"? Mark Adler madler@piglet.caltech.edu
barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (09/27/90)
In article <1990Sep26.215608.23901@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes: >reluctant to get one from an independant company ever since I bought >a CubeFloppy 1.4 and sent it back after being rather disappointed. Care to give us a review, or your reasons for disappointment? -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)