Re: tlug: Re: SCSI Floppies

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Marchak <joem@example.com> writes:

    Joe> Andy wrote:
    >> Can't help you there. The only SCSI floppy drives I've had the
    >> pleasure to work with are the CPM ones we used for sending
    >> System orders to the TSE :(

    Joe> These are the same ones : ) It turns out that they are
    Joe> "generic" SCSI drives, not just for CPM.  Teac's homepage
    Joe> says that the end-user is responsible for writing drivers for
    Joe> the units, and they provide some specs.  We've got a few of
    Joe> these left over from our old trading system, and I'd like to
    Joe> get them working under linux - ideally so that they could
    Joe> read/write CPM disks, but that's probably pushing it ;-)

Well, if you are really adventurous, I can scare up the source code
for the drivers. This would be SunOS specific, but if you were really
hell-bent on making it work, this would be a good starting point.

Note that these are among the world's most expensive floppy drives. I
think we sold them for USD 2000!

Andy
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