Request for Info on FLOPTICAL drives

[Kent Sandvik]

ryan (Ryan Jorgenson) writes in article <853 at amc-vlsi.UUCP>:
      Has anybody out there used one of the new FLOPTICAL 3-1/2" drives on a 
      Mac?  Specifically, I'm looking at the Insite Peripherals Floptical SCSI drive
      that I'd be attaching to my IIcx that's running A/UX 1.1.
      
      I'd like to hear from anybody that's got one of those up and running, whether its
      under Mac OS or A/UX.   

I have a COSMOS 600mb from RACET optical read/write unit for testing. 
It works OK both under A/UX and MacOS.  If you want to create A/UX
partitions, first create HFS ones, and change the type with 'dp' from
the A/UX side. The media conforms to ISO, and has a capacity of 298Mb
formatted on two-sides.

The access time is about 50ms, not bad, not good... I don't know who sells
these units in US.

Kent

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