From dew Fri Nov 30 06:55 MST 1990
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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 06:55:18 mst
From: Dave Willis <dew>
Full-Name: Dave Willis
To: dan@hpfcmb, quist@hpfclw
Subject: (fwd) TEAC SCSI drive
Cc: dew@hpfclw, jwh@hpfclw, jws@hpfclw, mlc@hpfcrt, mlk@hpfcoll, sjo@hpsjo
Status: RO

Dan & Robert:

Here is the information I received from Andy Batham of QTD.  If this
information is insufficient, you may want to contact him directly.  Here
are his various addresses:

Andy Batham     R&D Dept.               e-mail:         andyb@hpsqf.sqf.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard,                        voice:          +44 31 331 7237
Queensferry Telecoms Division,          fax:            +44 31 331 7488
South Queensferry,                      UK Telnet:      32237
Edinburgh, EH30 9TG                     anonymous ftp:  hpqtdla: ~/tmp/andyb
Scotland.                               HP desk:        Andy Batham/hp1400/b1
U.K.            (AIRMAIL)               JANET:          andyb%hpsqf@hpl.hp.co.uk


Hope this helps!

Really appreciate you looking into this.  If there is a chance that we
can use a TEAC floppy with out forcing a change to the existing drivers,
as well as providing backwards compatibility with existing floppies,
we would all benefit.

Thanks again,

Dave Willis

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> Subject: TEAC SCSI drive
> To: dew@hpfcla.fc.hp.com
> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 10:39:56 GMT
> Mailer: Elm [revision: 64.9]
> 
> 
>         Dave,
> 
>         Regarding the TEAC floppy.  I'm not sure who you have been talking
>         I know Ted Cline and Chris Helt at MSO have been involved with MACE
>         and Chris has been evaluating the TEAC FD-235HS-302 version that
>         Apollo division are using. (Not the same as the -300 we have.)
> 
>         As I understand it the Mode Sense command should return the details
>         of the number of blocks on the media and the block size.
> 
>         The TEAC part we have is the FD-235HS-300.  We obtained ours from a
>         UK distributor but future orders will be via the Japanese Internal
>         Procurement Operation (JIPO). Contact Katsuyuki Takasho, he's on
>         HPDESK.
> 
>                 Andy
> 
>         P.S. I'll contact Ted & Chris too.
> 
> 

