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- From: crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: removable mass storage ( Syquest, Floptical )
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.170206.20517@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:02:06 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: thughes@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes)'s message of Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:34:37 GMT
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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.
-