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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- From: eric@erix.demon.co.uk (Eric Cafritz)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!erix.demon.co.uk!eric
- Subject: 128 MByte Optical Drives and NeXT?
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- References: <1j6ts2INNmvg@spock.dis.cccd.edu>
- Organization: Coudert Brothers (Paris)
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- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 13:53:56 +0000
- Message-ID: <727451636snx@erix.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <1j6ts2INNmvg@spock.dis.cccd.edu> maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan15.125044.14808@linus.mitre.org> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org> (William Herndon) writes:
- >> Does anyone have an experience in connecting a 128 MByte R/W optical
- >> to a NeXT? Can we expect that SCSI versions of these devices will
- >> work without problems?
- >>
- >> Thanks much.
- >
- >I've tested the Ocean Vista 128 and the Vista 256 and they both work great
- >on the NeXT. The only problem I had was that when I did a BuildDisk and
- >tried to boot from the optical it didn't work at all. After putzing
- >around with it I concluded that BuildDisk in NS 3.0 doesn't work. Can
- >anyone confirm this or offer their experiences?
- >
- I use a PLI 128, and NS 3.0 boots fine from it, after an ordinary
- BuildDisk. I use the -rw flag in the boot command. I have had no problems
- with the PLI, but the fan is noisy.
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