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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- From: fred@genesis.demon.co.uk (Lawrence Kirby)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!genesis.demon.co.uk!fred
- Subject: removable mass storage ( Syquest, Floptical )
- Distribution: world
- References: <5634@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- Organization: BT
- Lines: 22
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:56:05 +0000
- Message-ID: <722480165snx@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk
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- In article <5634@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is writes:
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- >In <1ej06qINNd7g@iraul1.ira.uka.de> S_TILLENBURG@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Stephan> Tillenburg) writes:
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- >>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
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- >Is this a limitation of the device driver / filing system software on the
- >computer, or of the embedded SCSI firmware on the drive? It seems to me that
- >it is a question of whether the filing system recognises the disks rather
- >than a limitation of the drives.
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- This an issue in the Floptical's firmware. I was in contact with an Insite rep.
- on Compuserve and he was aware of Acorn and this issue.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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