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- From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Floptical
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.092002.28854@enea.se>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 09:20:02 GMT
- References: <C15y6q.L4K@unix.portal.com>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- danb@shell.portal.com (Dan E Babcock) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan20.084839.18781@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
- : >Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:
- : >: Ok, here's the story. The Insite Floptical is SCSI. You can name the
- : >: device whatever you want. I see no reason to NOT use DF1:.
- : >: Flopticals sell for $270(email me for details), it makes them very good
- : >: choices if you have an A3000. The read and write the 20 MB format and
- : >: look like a regular HD. The IBM 720K and 1.44MB formats are normally
- : >: mount using a mountlist. I have had no troubles with that format although
- : >: I only use it once in a while. Insite has been asked by me and other
- : >: people to support the trackdisk format, but have Apple disk formats to
- : >
- : >The Mac 1.44MB format is announced as ready.
- : >
- :
- : The Mac 1.44MB format is identical to IBM format, so that isn't such a
- : big deal. :-)
- :
- : Dan
-
- Have you TRIED putting a Mac 1.44MB diskette in a PC, or a PC 1.44MB diskette in
- a Mac? Both thinks the diskette is unformatted. The formats are similar, but
- not identical.
-
- I wonder how Apple could manage to make the "Apple File Exchange" so damn slow
- and cumbersome. It takes 2*forever to read an 1.44MB MSDOS floppy, with no
- conversion on whatsoever!
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