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In article <1065@lakesys.UUCP> mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) writes:
> Well, I have access to a brand-new Sony SMO-D501 magneto-optical drive,
>with the removable 650 megabyte platter (well, it's a flippable 325 Mbytes
>per side, if you wanna get picky), and the blank platters that were shipped
>with it are 1024 bytes per sector.  The unit has an ESDI interface, but also
>was shipped with a SCSI controller, and I'm trying to figure out if the unit
>will work with an Amiga (just for testing purposes, tho; I don't have the
>$3400 bux or so to buy one for myself, but it would be interesting to play
>with, until it's needed for the project at work that I bought it for).

	I know they work with A590's.  However, they have both 512 byte/
sector and 1024 byte/sector disks.  I'm not certain about the 1024 b/s
disk working (Steve Beats was testing it).  I am certain about the 512 b/s
disk working.  Not horribly fast, but works nice IMHO.

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