Fairlight-CMI

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "pmjtaysom" <philip@t...> wrote:

> I understand the MaxOptics Tahiti drives work - I've got a T6 I was
> going to try it out though I suspect it may not work and I'll have 
to
> try and find a T5 somewhere.  T5 in native mode would give you 
around
> 2.5Gb of backup storage per cartridge (unformatted).
> Philip

Philip,  
thanks, I just picked up a mint Maxoptics Tahiti T4-1300 MO
external SCSI drive for only $20 on E-Bay.
This will store 1.3GB on an MO disc.  I also got a pack of new
5 SONY 1.3GB MO discs for $15.  E-Bay has a boatload of MO/WORM
stuff for pretty cheap.  I like cheap :-)

Andrew Brent said T3, T4, T5 Maxoptics MO drives work on Series III's
and they are backwards compatible with all original WORM discs
& media.  I have the original Maxoptics RXT-800S WORM drive
from Fairlight for my Series III, but I wanted a faster spare and
also to back up more than 900MB per disc.

the recent MFX2 on Ebay had an external Maxoptics T5-2600 MO drive
which does (ideally) 2.6GB

I'm curious if the rev 9.34 WORM commands (fromworm, toworm, wdir)
will work with the T4 or T5, or do we need to get the 11.39
versions of WORM commands to copy onto our 9.4 systems.
I'll let you know what I find out on mine.


David