Re: removable mass storage ( Syquest, Floptical )

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From: Clive Jones
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:02

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In article <1992Nov21.163437.15129@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, thughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes) writes:
>
> 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.

Acorn's not the only one. You will notice certain companies being very careful
to say that it can use existing 3.5" media, rather than that it can read
existing Acorn-format discs.

I know at least one company that is holding on to its release of flopticals
until Acorn-format DD and HD discs are supported - the manufacturers HAVE
committed themselves to fixing this problem, but it seems to be taking longer
than expected...

--Clive.

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Subject: Re: removable mass storage ( Syquest, Floptical )
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