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- From: fredness@cup.portal.com (Frederick Armstrong Shaul)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Floptical...
- Message-ID: <69981@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 17:06:08 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <BxM5J4.G19@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <BxMyKA.44v@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- <1992Nov19.093647.90642@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- >
- > I was talking to my local Amiga dealer about Flopticals about a month ago.
- > ...
- > The Quaterback people supposedly said that the disks start becoming
- > unreliable after they've been over-written 5 or 6 times. They believe
- > the problem is with the disks, not the drive.
- >
-
- Flopticals unreliable? I recently evaluted such a beast with an ENSONIQ
- EPS 16+ equipped with a SCSI adaptor. Of the three floptical disks I
- used, one in particular got heavy use as I developed a defrag algorythm.
-
- Not once did I experience any medium related failures. In fact, my
- understanding of the optical tracking and the Barium..X medium leads
- me to believe that flopticals must be several orders of magnitude more
- reliable than tradition magnetic medium (of course upping the density
- effectively grows the failure potential ...).
-
- Also neet is formating 720/1440 KByte disks via SCSI with floptical, the
- motor speed is twice as fast as typical IBM 3.25" drives ... :)
-
- - frederick
-