Floptical on Sun2?

[Chris Johnson]

In article <6261 at brazos.Rice.edu> dd26+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 101, message 15
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>I'm toying with the idea of getting a SCSI floptical for my small network
>of two Sun2s and a uVax1.  I'm hoping that it would just be
>"plug-and-play" as far as hooking up the floptical to the Sun2s SCSI
>controller.  Has anyone considered something like this?  Does anyone have
>any input?

Given the usual perversity of manufacturers of peripherals, including SCSI
devices, I would be doubtful that you'll be able to just plug-and-play
unless the supplier of the floptical you intend to use has done some Sun
system integration with it.  The older Sun SCSI drivers and host adapter
(frequently mis-called a controller) are especially bad at getting along
with just any old SCSI device being attached.  I'd suggest you make sure
it works before you buy it.

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