What about removable media drives?
The floppy drive in the Pogle control panel is no longer used. The
floppy is placed on the external SCSI bus of the SGI system as id 5,
before the Pogle workstation.
A floppy may be needed for MSDOS EDL imports, however EDL's can also
be transfered over the network to the Platinum system, so a floppy may
not be needed.
SGI O2 or Indy should be ordered with an SGI 3.5 inch external floppy
that connects to the SCSI port.
The old Pogle floppy can also be used, a suitable case with power
supply and Centronics connectors is RS part 191-9309. The floppy must
be id 5. This is achieved by leaving the middle id link on. (This is
different to a hard drive)
However for backup of operator projects, lists and notes the floppy
drive cannot be used. This is because of the small, slow capacity of a
floppy disk.
SCSI Jaz drives are suitable as they give the convenience of removable
media with comparable size and speed to a hard drive. SCSI Zip drives
are an alternative but offer limited space per cartridge and slower
operation. Jaz drives should be id 4 and the disks should be Macintosh
or IRIX format.