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Article #576Re: removable mass storage ( Syquest, Floptical )
From: Tom Hughes
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:34
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:34
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In article <1ej06qINNd7g@iraul1.ira.uka.de> S_TILLENBURG@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Stephan Tillenburg) writes:
>I read flopticals can read only MS-DOS standard formats
>( 9 sectors per track on DD and 18 sectors per track on HD )
>but you can't read 10 sectors per track on DD - disks
As I understand it, current flopticals can read MS-DOS discs but not
Acorn discs. This is because the firmware for the floptical drives
assumes that the first sector on each track will be sector 1 (as per
DOS discs). Acorn discs start as sector 0. A recent magazine (BAU
about 2 months ago I think) said that Acorn was trying to get the
floptical manufacturers in the states to change this.
>( As I mentioned before - this is not my own experience with flopticals )
Same here.
Tom.
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