#MO Drives
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Kelly,
I've been using the Fuji 2511A fora few months off a GVP G-Force '040
board with no poblems. I have it mounted internally in the 5.25 bay (fits
nicely with the adaptor bracket – too small for a 3.5 slot without the
bracket – made for laptop 3.5" holes, I think). It is as fast on reads,
but, as you would expect, writes are slower than say a normal reomvable
like Syquest or Ricoh. Overall it is quick enough that I have several
disks set up as bootable for software that I run occasionally, and the
speed does not seem to be a hinderance to me.
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Wayne, thanks for the info.
I'll most likely get the internal version, and mount it in and external
box/ps. Will get a two bay version so I can mount a CD-Rom driver in the
same enclosure, when I get one.
73, Kelly
Wayne,
Pardon me for jumping in, but I wonder if you might be able to help
me. I've been trying to connect a Pinnacle Micro Tahoe 128 Meg. MO
drive to my A4000, but I haven't had any luck. HD Tools sees the
drive but can't write to it. My GVP Impact Series II SCSI card
doesn't see it at all.
What did you have to do to get your Fuji to work? Have you heard about
a utility that will make MO's writable on the Amiga? What was your
source for the Fuji?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Regards,
Jonathan
Easy ones first:
I got the Fujitsu from Insight – big adds in Byte and PC. Nice 24 hour
tech support line.
I originally was quite interested in Pinnacle , but someone on here had
said that they were unsuccesfull getting it running with an Amiga.
All I did with the Fuji was intsall it, power-up, run FaaastPrep on the
disks, reboot and that was that. There is nothing special to do to make
it writable as it appears to the gvpscsi.device as a removable media
read/writable device.
One thing that comes to mind: some people have noted that on the A4000 the
CBM scsi.device is actually an IDE device and that you have to use
scsi_2.device (or some such) as the SCSI driver. That would be for a 4091
card. For the GVP, use the FaaastPrep utility, best from a copy of the
original disk, and just search through board and SCSI ID numbers until you
see the drive listed. Then prep one of the media. Depending on the age
of your GVP card, you may want to insure you have a ROM revision that can
be used with removabeles (after about version 4.3, I think – current is
4.13 last I knew…). No low level format is required. Just set up the
partions, write an RDB and AmigaDOS format.
One other thing – I believe it is true that you CANNOT use MO drives that
use 1024 byte sectors – they must use the 512 byte sectors to be useable
on the Amiga.
Hope this helps …
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Wayne,
Thanks! You're the first person I've heard from who is actually using an MO, of
any kind, on an Amiga. Naturally the sales guy at Pinnacle said his drive
absolutely would work on an Amiga, while the Fuji guy said that his drive
absolutely would not work on the Amiga. These guys should swap jobs!
My only concern now is cost. I've been told that the Fuji costs about $1400 and
that's too much. When I find one that works (preferrably on both the Amiga and
PC) I'm going to buy a lot of them, so price is going to be a big factor.
Thanks again for your help.
Regards,
Jonathan
Jonathan
I paid $979 for the drive (internal version) with five peices of media. I
think for the same price they had the external version with two peices of
media. Locate an Inight ad then call them for a quote. (Note the MO
drives may not be in the ad but the have them).
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Wayne,
Thanks again! $979 is much more to my liking. I'm heading for the magazine
racks now, looking for Insight.
Do you think the same drive would work on a PC with a SCSI board?
Regards,
Jonathan