On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, James Lockwood wrote:
>
> > scsi floppy id=5.
>
> partition #5 on SCSI ID #3 (quite possibly your boot drive).
>
> So your SCSI floppy would be c0t5d0s[0-7] for the different partition
> entries.
>
> fdformat is designed for use with S/WD interfaced floppies, such as the
> builtin interfaced floppy drives on sun4c systems. The boot PROM sees
> SCSI floppies as just another SCSI drive, so to boot off of it you will
> probably have to lay down a partition table and write fixed-disk style
> boot blocks to it.
>
> This is all from memory which may be in error, the last time I dealt with
> SCSI floppies was on a 3/280 running SunOS 4.1.1. Never tried to boot
> from one.
>
Wow.. so there were really SCSI floppy drives at one point. I take it they
were used largely on pre-SPARC machines, but are they still around? Are
they still manufactured? How's compatibility with FM floppy drives? What
are the densities? From what I've read and seen, my SPARCstation 2 has an
FM-based floppy drive, is this correct?
Sorry for being off-topic, but I was amazed to read of a SCSI floppy
drive... It has been one of those "wouldn't it be cool if" things. Any
pointers to additional information on them?
Thanks.
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