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Need to read an IBM 3363 WORM disk

So, can you read Next Cube Canon MO discs? If so, you're a very rare commodity...
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Read and write. In the last two years or so we figured out what was killing them and have been slowly reviving them with relative success. There's a whole thread on the NeXT Computer forums documenting the progress.

Next drives have bad lasers or just bad capacitors?
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Capacitors. The lasers are fine.
Also, the NeXT/Canon drives use what I believe is similar to UFS but the blocksize and media type is totally proprietary to everything out there.
 
Any reason you can't just use a Fujtisu MO drive? Or are the NeXT MO drives super special? I have a couple 2.3GB Fujitsu drives and disks. I love the things, they're awesome. I use them for backing up all my vintage Mac software.
 
olePigeon said:
Any reason you can't just use a Fujtisu MO drive? Or are the NeXT MO drives super special? I have a couple 2.3GB Fujitsu drives and disks. I love the things, they're awesome. I use them for backing up all my vintage Mac software.
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The Canon MO Drive used by NeXT predated the standardization process so the connectors and disk format are different from other MO drives.
 
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