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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: MO drives!? was Re: (Q) driver for 20M floptical on SCSI
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.235352.18496@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 23:53:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.081655.1703@cltr.uq.OZ.AU> <1992Dec16.225208.24341@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec20.162556.5567@adapcal.UUCP>
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- What MO drives are supported?
- 128 MB?
- 650 MB?
-
- I think these drives will become increasingly important to OS/2 users as they
- and their medias come down in price. All OS/2 users need increaingly large
- amounts of removable storage. Why not use these drives for backup and offline
- storage?
-
- In article <1992Dec20.162556.5567@adapcal.UUCP> jlloyd@adapcal.UUCP (John Lloyd) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.225208.24341@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec14.081655.1703@cltr.uq.OZ.AU> vthrc@mailbox.uq.oz.au writes:
- >>>perhaps somebody might be able to answer a simple question that our dealer
- >>>doesn't seem able to: is there an OS/2 driver for an Insite 20M floptical
- >>>drive? We are currently running one under DOS with a Grassroots SCSI adaptor,
- >>
- >>You'd need a SCSI adapter natively supported by OS/2 (like Adaptec,
- >>Trantor, Future Domain, etc). If so, it should work.
- >>
- >>
- >Unfortunately there is NOT any true support for floptical drives at this
- >point. In order to write to one a vendor specific command is required to
- >"unlock" the media. This would probably best be handled at a level above
- >the ADD (i.e. OS2DASD.DMD or a filter) so that all types of valid media
- >would function correctly. Perhaps this will be added in the future to
- >OS2DASD by IBM or Insite could write the filter to handle their specific
- >drive.
- >
- >jlloyd@adapcal.com
- >
- >>Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
- >>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
- >>Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
- >>of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
- >
- >
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