[rescue] OpenBSD on an SS5 - argh!

Sheldon T. Hall shel at cmhcsys.com
Fri May 14 15:14:36 CDT 2004


Mike Meredith says ...
> I said ...
> >
> > I even got a
> > "SCSI" floppy drive with one of my SGIs, and who cares?
>
> Does that get it's power from the SCSI bus like Tadpole floppy drives ?

Nope, it uses a regular IEC power cord.

> Would a Tadpole drive work on an SGI ? (I've got a spare Tadpole drive
> from when my 3GX was stolen).

I dunno.  I suppose it depends on whether the Tadpole floppy draws more
power than a "normal" SCSI connection makes available, and that's not my
level of SCSI involvement.

-Shel



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