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 Post subject: SGI Super Disk Question
Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:51 pm 
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Hey guys, what type of media does the SGI super disk drive take? I can't seem to find any office information about this piece of hw...

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:09 pm 
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Are you talking about the "floptical" drive that sometimes is found in Indys and Challenge S machines? If so, it can handle 3.5" 21 MB floptical disks and standard Mac/PC formatted single-sided and double-sided 3.5" diskettes. The OEM was Insite.


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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:21 pm 
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There was also a parallel-connected floppy drive mentioned in SGI's O2 User Manual. I've never seen one. What was its capacity?

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:41 pm 
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Capacity is 120MB, I didn't know they made floppies that size (wow?).

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:42 pm 
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josehill wrote:
Are you talking about the "floptical" drive that sometimes is found in Indys and Challenge S machines? If so, it can handle 3.5" 21 MB floptical disks and standard Mac/PC formatted single-sided and double-sided 3.5" diskettes. The OEM was Insite.


No not this one, the one I'm talking about is an external drive that connects to a machine via SCSI interface, and takes 120MB media, but what media is the question heheh.

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:16 pm 
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If I recall correctly, a lot of sellers produced this kind of disks and reader units. I had one in a Siemens Field PG (special PC laptop). Never used the 120MB disks thought, only stardard floppies on that units.

I think you are looking for this: http://www.amazon.com/Imation-11762-SuperDisk-120MB-3-Pack/dp/B00001O2YQ

There is some more information in the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:19 pm 
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Sounds like an LS-120 then, as described on this page and reviewed (in an IDE version) by c|net here.

You might be able to get media on Amazon or from some vendors listing on Pricewatch.

Edit: Tip 'o the hat to titox, but after all that typing I wasn't going to just cancel my response... ;)

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Too expensive disks now, IMHO.

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:41 pm 
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Ah, right, okay. Yep, definitely sounds like the LS-120. In addition to the 120 MB optical disks, LS-120 SuperDisk drives can also work with standard Mac/PC 1.44 MB diskettes and PC-formatted 720 kB diskettes. Way back when, I used LS-120s for image collection from microscope workstations and DNA sequencing machines. I even had one of the later, 240 MB models, but by then, Zip/Jaz drives were beating them by a wide margin in both price and performance, and CD-Rs were much less expensive for archival purposes. I might still have a USB-flavored LS-120 in the workshop somewhere.

IRIX can format FAT and HFS filesystems on LS-120 media via the mkfp command. My guess is that IRIX supports XFS on LS-120 via the usual mkfs_xfs and mediad routes, but I don't recall trying it myself on IRIX. We made the jump from 20 MB floptical directly to Zip/Jaz on our SGI machines.


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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:58 pm 
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Thanks for all the info guys. Helped a lot :)

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:40 pm 
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If you want something similar, a SCSI ZIp or Jaz drive works transparently under IRIX 6.5. Media for either ought to be cheaper than the LS120. Both ZIp and Jaz have had some well publicized issues with reliability, but as long as you don't use them for anything critical (or anything more than very temporary file transfers), they'd probably work ok.

If you want a Jaz drive I've got one than can be yours for postage.

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:05 pm 
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recondas wrote:
If you want something similar, a SCSI ZIp or Jaz drive works transparently under IRIX 6.5.

If you have a newer SGI, a CF or SD card reader on a firewire adapter works even better. A fat32 filesystem driver would make them work over 2 gigabytes, too, if someone wants a useful software project.


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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:56 pm 
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Is there a DVD-RAM compatible device we can use on IRIX?

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binary0x01 wrote:
Is there a DVD-RAM compatible device we can use on IRIX?
Sure - SGI even offered one as an option. http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals ... 10-001.pdf

I have one I no longer use - it's a Lacie with a Panasonic LF-D291 SCSI DVD-RAM mechanism (this one doesn't require cartridge-enclosed DVD-RAM disks). The Lacie external enclosure is dark blue - the color is a pretty good visual match for an O2, Octane2 or O2k deskside. PM me if you're interested.

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recondas wrote:
I have one I no longer use - it's a Lacie with a Panasonic LF-D291 SCSI DVD-RAM mechanism (this one doesn't require cartridge-enclosed DVD-RAM disks).

Did you ever get that to work, recondas ? I've tried using a DVD-RAM via yamaha scsi-ide adapter and never been very successful.


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