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- Short: V1.1, Amiga Magneto-Optical Drive FAQ
- Author: mark_k@iname.com
- Uploader: mark_k@iname.com
- Type: docs/help
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- Amiga Magneto-Optical (MO) Drive FAQ 1.1 (5-Aug-98)
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- Copyright © 1998 by Mark Knibbs
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- Some extracts from the FAQ:
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- Introduction
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- The Amiga Magneto-Optical Drive FAQ contains information about using
- magneto-optical (MO) disk drives with the Amiga. It is freely distributable.
-
- I hope the availability of this document will encourage more Amiga users to
- consider optical storage, instead of magnetic media like Zip, Jaz and SyQuest.
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- What is a Magneto-Optical Disk Drive?
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- Magneto-optical ("MO") disk drives are versatile removable storage devices,
- which use very robust and inexpensive media. You can use an MO disk just like a
- large floppy disk, or like a hard disk.
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- Media life is at least 30 years, which greatly exceeds the life of magnetic
- media like floppy disks, Zip and Jaz disks. Some manufacturers quote media
- life of 50 or even 100 years. Data can be rewritten at least 1 million times,
- and read at least 10 million times. This figure also exceeds that for magnetic
- media. MO disks are not susceptible to magnetic fields, unlike other types of
- disk. They are available in several different capacities, which vary in price.
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- MO drives are backwardly compatible, which means that if you upgrade your drive
- in the future, you will be able to read and write all your existing disks on
- the new drive.
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- Version History
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- 1.0 25-Jul-98 First public release.
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- 1.1 5-Aug-98 Second public release.
- Updated many sections.
- Corrected mistakes in the comments of some mount files.
- Added mount files for Amiga and PC 128MB disks.
- Added Zip & Jaz Reliability Problems, Information Wanted,
- List of Amiga MO Users and Amiga MO Mailing List sections.
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- Contents
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- - Introduction
- - What is a Magneto-Optical Drive?
- - How MO Drives Work
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- - Types of MO media
- - LIMDOW (direct overwrite) media
- - Backward Compatibility
- - Media Costs
- - Drive Costs
- - Drive Specifications
- - Where to Get More Information
- - Zip & Jaz Reliability Problems
- - Miscellaneous
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- - Amiga Requirements
- - Drive Settings
- - About the Write-Back Cache
- - Using Different Disk Capacities
- - Mounting and Using Drive and Disks
- - Example Mount Files
- - Using MO Disks With Emulators
- - Sharing the Drive With a PC or Mac
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- - For Programmers
- - About NSR and UDF
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- - List of Amiga MO Users
- - Amiga MO Mailing List
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- - Information Wanted
- - Contacting the Author
- - Thanks To...
- - Version History
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