<PAGE>   1



                                                   Registration No. 33-_________
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549
                             ----------------------
                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                  CIPRICO INC.
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
                             ----------------------

           Delaware                                        41-1749708    
   -------------------------                           ------------------
    (State or Other Juris-                             (I.R.S. Employer
   diction of Incorporation                          Identification Number)
      or Organization)

                               2800 Campus Drive
                           Plymouth, Minnesota  55441
              (Address of Principal Executive Office and Zip Code)
                   ------------------------------------------

                 CIPRICO INC. 1996 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
                            (Full Title of the Plan)

                                 Robert H. Kill
                                  Ciprico Inc.
                               2800 Campus Drive
                           Plymouth, Minnesota  55441
                                 (612) 551-4000
 (Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

                                   Copies to:
                               Timothy M. Heaney
                            Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
                           1100 International Centre
                         Minneapolis, Minnesota  55402
                   ------------------------------------------

                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                         Proposed
                                               Proposed Maximum           Maximum
  Title of Securities      Amount to be         Offering Price           Aggregate             Amount of
   to be Registered        Registered(1)         Per Share(2)        Offering Price(2)     Registration Fee
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  <S>                     <C>                      <C>                  <C>                   <C>
  Options to Purchase
  Common Stock under
     the 1996 Plan          Indefinite             $   0.00             $      0.00             $   0.00

     Common Stock
     issuable upon
  exercise of options
   granted under the
       1996 Plan          100,000 shares           $13.9375             $1,393,750              $ 480.60
                                                                                                  ------

        TOTAL:                                                                                  $ 480.60
============================================================================================================== 
</TABLE>


(1)  In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this
     Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to
     be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein
     and any additional securities which may become issuable pursuant to
     anti-dilution provisions of the plan.

(2)  Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of calculating
     the registration fee and based upon the average of the high and low prices
     of the Registrant's Common Stock on December 7, 1995.

================================================================================

<PAGE>   2


                                    PART II
               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT


Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

                 The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this
Registration Statement the documents listed in (a) through (c) below:

                 (a)      The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant
                          to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
                          Act of 1934, or either (I) the latest prospectus
                          filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities
                          Act of 1933 that contains audited financial
                          statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year
                          for which such statements have been filed or (II) the
                          Registrant's effective registration statement on Form
                          10 or 10-SB filed under the Securities Exchange Act
                          of 1934 containing audited financial statements for
                          the Registrant's latest fiscal year;

                 (b)      All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or
                          15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 since
                          the end of the fiscal year covered by the Registrant
                          document referred to in (a) above;

                 (c)      If the class of securities to be offered is
                          registered under Section 12 of the Securities
                          Exchange Act of 1934, the description of such class
                          of securities contained in a registration statement
                          filed under such Act, including any amendment or
                          report filed for the purpose of updating such
                          description.

                 All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all such securities then
remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4.          Description of Securities.

                 Not Applicable.

Item 5.          Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

                 Not applicable.

Item 6.          Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

                 The Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a director
of a corporation (i) shall be indemnified by the corporation for expenses in
defense of any action or proceeding





                                     - 1 -
<PAGE>   3

if the director is sued by reason of his service to the corporation, to the
extent that such person has been successful in defense of such action or
proceeding, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter raised in such
litigation, (ii) may, in actions other than actions by or in the right of the
corporation, be indemnified for expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in
settlement of such litigation, even if he is not successful on the merits, if
he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the best interests of the corporation (and in a criminal proceeding,
if he did not have reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful) and
(iii) may be indemnified by the corporation for expenses (but not judgments or
settlements) of any action by the corporation or of a derivative action, even
if he is not successful, provided that he acted in good faith and in a manner
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation, and provided that no indemnification is permitted without court
approval if the director was adjudged liable to the corporation.  The Company's
Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws provide that the Company (i) may
indemnify its officers, employees and agents and (ii) must indemnify its
directors to the full extent permitted by law, including those circumstances in
which indemnification would otherwise be discretionary, and advance expenses to
its directors at their request provided that they undertake to repay amounts
advanced if it is ultimately determined that they are not entitled to
indemnification.  The Company maintains a directors and officers liability
insurance policy and, in addition, has entered into indemnity agreements with
its directors which constitute binding agreements of the Company to indemnify
its directors and prevent the Company from modifying its indemnification
policies in a way that is adverse to the directors who are parties to such
agreements.

Item 7.          Exemption from Registration Claimed.

                 Not applicable.

Item 8.          Exhibits.

                 5        Opinion and Consent of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. 
                          relating to the legality of securities under the 
                          1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

                 23.1     Consent of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.  --  included in
                          their opinion filed as Exhibit 5.

                 23.2     Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP.

                 24       Power of Attorney from certain directors.

Item 9.          Undertakings.

                 (a)      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

                          (1)     To file, during any period in which offers 
                          or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment 
                          to this Registration Statement:





                                     - 2 -
<PAGE>   4

                                  (i)      To include any prospectus required
                                  by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of
                                  1933;

                                  (ii)     To reflect in the prospectus any
                                  facts or events arising after the effective
                                  date of the Registration Statement (or the
                                  most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
                                  which, individually or in the aggregate,
                                  represents a fundamental change in the
                                  information set forth in the Registration
                                  Statement;

                                  (iii)    To include any material information
                                  with respect to the plan of distribution not
                                  previously disclosed in the Registration
                                  Statement or any material change to such
                                  information in the Registration Statement;

                                  Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i)
                                  and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the
                                  information required to be included in a
                                  post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
                                  is contained in periodic reports filed by the
                                  Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
                                  15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
                                  that are incorporated by reference in the
                                  Registration Statement.

                          (2)     That, for the purposes of determining any
                          liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such
                          post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
                          Registration Statement relating to the securities
                          offered therein, and the offering of such securities
                          at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                          fide offering thereof.

                          (3)     To remove from registration by means of a
                          post-effective amendment any of the securities being
                          registered which remain unsold at the termination of
                          the offering.

                 (b)      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that,
                 for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
                 Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's annual report
                 pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities
                 Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
                 employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section
                 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is
                 incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall
                 be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
                 securities offered therein, and the offering of such
                 securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                 fide offering thereof.

                 (c)      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
                 under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to
                 directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
                 pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
                 Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
                 Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is
                 against public policy as expressed in the Act and is,
                 therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
                 indemnification against such





                                     - 3 -
<PAGE>   5

         liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
         incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the
         Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
         proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling
         person in connection with the securities being registered, the
         Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has
         been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
         appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by
         it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be
         governed by final adjudication of such issue.



                                   SIGNATURES

         The Registrant.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that
it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused
this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Plymouth and State of Minnesota, on
the   14th   day of December, 1995.


                                        CIPRICO INC.
                                        (the "Registrant")



                                        By /s/ Robert H. Kill              
                                           ----------------------------- 
                                           Robert H. Kill, President
                                           and Chief Executive Officer



         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

                              (Power of Attorney)

         Each of the undersigned constitutes and appoints Robert H. Kill and
Cory J. Miller his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting
alone, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Form S-8
Registration Statement of Ciprico Inc. relating to the Company's 1996 Employee
Stock Purchase Plan and any or all amendments or post-effective amendments to
the Form S-8 Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each
acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to
all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and





                                     - 4 -
<PAGE>   6

confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
         
         
         Signature                 Title                                 Date
         ---------                 -----                                 ----
<S>                         <C>                                   <C>     
/s/ Robert H. Kill          President, Chief Executive               December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------     Officer and Director                   -----------------      
Robert H. Kill              (principal executive officer)
                           


/s/ Cory J. Miller          Vice President of Finance,               December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------     Chief Financial Officer and            -----------------      
Cory J. Miller              Secretary (principal financial
                            and accounting officer)       
                           


/s/ Gary L. Deaner          Director                                 December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------                                            -----------------      
Gary L. Deaner


/s/ Donald H. Soukup        Director                                 December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------                                            -----------------      
Donald H. Soukup


/s/ Ronald B. Thomas        Director                                 December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------                                            -----------------      
Ronald B. Thomas


/s/ William N. Wray         Director                                 December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------                                            -----------------      
William N. Wray
</TABLE>





                                     - 5 -

<PAGE>   7

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            Washington, D.C.  20549



             ------------------------------------------------------

                                  CIPRICO INC.

             ------------------------------------------------------


                        Form S-8 Registration Statement


             ------------------------------------------------------

                            E X H I B I T  I N D E X

             ------------------------------------------------------




<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Exhibit
Number                            Exhibit Description                        
- ------           ------------------------------------------------------------
<S>              <C>
 5               Opinion and Consent of counsel re securities under the Plan
23.1             Consent of counsel--See Exhibit 5 
23.2             Consent of independent auditors
24               Power of attorney--See Signature Page
                                                      
</TABLE>
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1

                                                   Registration No. 33-_________
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549
                             ----------------------
                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                  CIPRICO INC.
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
                             ----------------------

           Delaware                                        41-1749708    
   -------------------------                           ------------------
    (State or Other Juris-                             (I.R.S. Employer
   diction of Incorporation                          Identification Number)
      or Organization)

                               2800 Campus Drive
                           Plymouth, Minnesota  55441
              (Address of Principal Executive Office and Zip Code)
                   ------------------------------------------

                 CIPRICO INC. 1996 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
                            (Full Title of the Plan)

                                 Robert H. Kill
                                  Ciprico Inc.
                               2800 Campus Drive
                           Plymouth, Minnesota  55441
                                 (612) 551-4000
 (Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

                                   Copies to:
                               Timothy M. Heaney
                            Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
                           1100 International Centre
                         Minneapolis, Minnesota  55402
                   ------------------------------------------

                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
                                               Proposed Maximum           Maximum
  Title of Securities      Amount to be         Offering Price           Aggregate             Amount of
   to be Registered        Registered(1)         Per Share(2)        Offering Price(2)     Registration Fee
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Options to Purchase
  Common Stock under
     the 1996 Plan          Indefinite             $   0.00             $      0.00             $   0.00

     Common Stock
     issuable upon
  exercise of options
   granted under the
       1996 Plan          100,000 shares           $13.9375             $1,393,750              $ 480.60
                                                                                                  ------

        TOTAL:                                                                                  $ 480.60
==============================================================================================================
(1)  In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this
     Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to
     be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein
     and any additional securities which may become issuable pursuant to
     anti-dilution provisions of the plan.

(2)  Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of calculating
     the registration fee and based upon the average of the high and low prices
     of the Registrant's Common Stock on December 7, 1995.

================================================================================
2

                                    PART II
               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

                 The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this
Registration Statement the documents listed in (a) through (c) below:

                 (a)      The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant
                          to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
                          Act of 1934, or either (I) the latest prospectus
                          filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities
                          Act of 1933 that contains audited financial
                          statements for the Registrant's latest fiscal year
                          for which such statements have been filed or (II) the
                          Registrant's effective registration statement on Form
                          10 or 10-SB filed under the Securities Exchange Act
                          of 1934 containing audited financial statements for
                          the Registrant's latest fiscal year;

                 (b)      All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or
                          15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 since
                          the end of the fiscal year covered by the Registrant
                          document referred to in (a) above;

                 (c)      If the class of securities to be offered is
                          registered under Section 12 of the Securities
                          Exchange Act of 1934, the description of such class
                          of securities contained in a registration statement
                          filed under such Act, including any amendment or
                          report filed for the purpose of updating such
                          description.

                 All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all such securities then
remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
documents.

Item 4.          Description of Securities.

                 Not Applicable.

Item 5.          Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

                 Not applicable.

Item 6.          Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

                 The Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a director
of a corporation (i) shall be indemnified by the corporation for expenses in
defense of any action or proceeding

                                     - 1 -
3

if the director is sued by reason of his service to the corporation, to the
extent that such person has been successful in defense of such action or
proceeding, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter raised in such
litigation, (ii) may, in actions other than actions by or in the right of the
corporation, be indemnified for expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in
settlement of such litigation, even if he is not successful on the merits, if
he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the best interests of the corporation (and in a criminal proceeding,
if he did not have reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful) and
(iii) may be indemnified by the corporation for expenses (but not judgments or
settlements) of any action by the corporation or of a derivative action, even
if he is not successful, provided that he acted in good faith and in a manner
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation, and provided that no indemnification is permitted without court
approval if the director was adjudged liable to the corporation.  The Company's
Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws provide that the Company (i) may
indemnify its officers, employees and agents and (ii) must indemnify its
directors to the full extent permitted by law, including those circumstances in
which indemnification would otherwise be discretionary, and advance expenses to
its directors at their request provided that they undertake to repay amounts
advanced if it is ultimately determined that they are not entitled to
indemnification.  The Company maintains a directors and officers liability
insurance policy and, in addition, has entered into indemnity agreements with
its directors which constitute binding agreements of the Company to indemnify
its directors and prevent the Company from modifying its indemnification
policies in a way that is adverse to the directors who are parties to such
agreements.

Item 7.          Exemption from Registration Claimed.

                 Not applicable.

Item 8.          Exhibits.

                 5        Opinion and Consent of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. 
                          relating to the legality of securities under the 
                          1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

                 23.1     Consent of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.  --  included in
                          their opinion filed as Exhibit 5.

                 23.2     Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP.

                 24       Power of Attorney from certain directors.

Item 9.          Undertakings.

                 (a)      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

                          (1)     To file, during any period in which offers 
                          or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment 
                          to this Registration Statement:

                                     - 2 -
4

                                  (i)      To include any prospectus required
                                  by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of
                                  1933;

                                  (ii)     To reflect in the prospectus any
                                  facts or events arising after the effective
                                  date of the Registration Statement (or the
                                  most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
                                  which, individually or in the aggregate,
                                  represents a fundamental change in the
                                  information set forth in the Registration
                                  Statement;

                                  (iii)    To include any material information
                                  with respect to the plan of distribution not
                                  previously disclosed in the Registration
                                  Statement or any material change to such
                                  information in the Registration Statement;

                                  Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i)
                                  and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the
                                  information required to be included in a
                                  post-effective amendment by those paragraphs
                                  is contained in periodic reports filed by the
                                  Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
                                  15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
                                  that are incorporated by reference in the
                                  Registration Statement.

                          (2)     That, for the purposes of determining any
                          liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such
                          post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
                          Registration Statement relating to the securities
                          offered therein, and the offering of such securities
                          at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                          fide offering thereof.

                          (3)     To remove from registration by means of a
                          post-effective amendment any of the securities being
                          registered which remain unsold at the termination of
                          the offering.

                 (b)      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that,
                 for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
                 Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's annual report
                 pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities
                 Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
                 employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section
                 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is
                 incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall
                 be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
                 securities offered therein, and the offering of such
                 securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
                 fide offering thereof.

                 (c)      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
                 under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to
                 directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
                 pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
                 Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
                 Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is
                 against public policy as expressed in the Act and is,
                 therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
                 indemnification against such

                                     - 3 -
5

         liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
         incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the
         Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
         proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling
         person in connection with the securities being registered, the
         Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has
         been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
         appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by
         it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be
         governed by final adjudication of such issue.

                                   SIGNATURES

         The Registrant.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that
it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused
this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Plymouth and State of Minnesota, on
the   14th   day of December, 1995.

                                        CIPRICO INC.
                                        (the "Registrant")

                                        By /s/ Robert H. Kill              
                                           ----------------------------- 
                                           Robert H. Kill, President
                                           and Chief Executive Officer

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

                              (Power of Attorney)

         Each of the undersigned constitutes and appoints Robert H. Kill and
Cory J. Miller his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting
alone, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Form S-8
Registration Statement of Ciprico Inc. relating to the Company's 1996 Employee
Stock Purchase Plan and any or all amendments or post-effective amendments to
the Form S-8 Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each
acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to
all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and

                                     - 4 -
6

confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or
their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.
Signature                 Title                                 Date
         ---------                 -----                                 ----
/s/ Robert H. Kill          President, Chief Executive               December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------     Officer and Director                   -----------------      
Robert H. Kill              (principal executive officer)
                           

/s/ Cory J. Miller          Vice President of Finance,               December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------     Chief Financial Officer and            -----------------      
Cory J. Miller              Secretary (principal financial
                            and accounting officer)       
                           

/s/ Gary L. Deaner          Director                                 December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------                                            -----------------      
Gary L. Deaner

/s/ Donald H. Soukup        Director                                 December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------                                            -----------------      
Donald H. Soukup

/s/ Ronald B. Thomas        Director                                 December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------                                            -----------------      
Ronald B. Thomas

/s/ William N. Wray         Director                                 December 14    , 1995
- -----------------------                                            -----------------      
William N. Wray
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            Washington, D.C.  20549

             ------------------------------------------------------

                                  CIPRICO INC.

             ------------------------------------------------------

                        Form S-8 Registration Statement

             ------------------------------------------------------

                            E X H I B I T  I N D E X

             ------------------------------------------------------
Exhibit
Number                            Exhibit Description                        
- ------           ------------------------------------------------------------
5               Opinion and Consent of counsel re securities under the Plan
23.1             Consent of counsel--See Exhibit 5 
23.2             Consent of independent auditors
24               Power of attorney--See Signature Page