Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!unmvax!indri!xanth!ginosko!uunet!tiamat!quintro!reb From: reb@quintro.uucp (Roger E. Benz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: SCSI adaptors, floppy drives Message-ID: <1989Aug14.142109.1781@quintro.uucp> Date: 14 Aug 89 14:21:09 GMT References: <8610@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: reb@quintro.UUCP (Roger E. Benz) Distribution: usa Organization: none Lines: 24 In article <8610@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) writes: >I'd like to find out what is available in the following >categories for an Apollo Domain 3500 workstation. > >Floppy drive: this is another backup option, and could also serve >for easy Apollo (and the net) <--> IBM PC/AT file transfer. >Can one get a 1.2 Meg 5.25" or a 1.44 Meg (or 720K) 3.5" drive? >Can it read/write MS-DOS format files? Or only UNIX files? Both? > Apollo has a floppy available that will meet your needs. It can read write MS-DOS high dense floppies if you get the hardware or software PC compatibility products. It does not read/write low dense floppies very well. As for UNIX floppies you can either mount the floppy, use wbak/rbak or tar. The cost, if you have a hard disk, is about $500 for the floppy. The PC software emulator is about $500 and the PC hardware emulator is $2K-$3k. -- Roger E. Benz Phone = (217) 223-3211 Quintron Corporation Quincy, Il UUCP: tiamat!quintro!reb@uunet or quintro!reb@lll-winken