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- From: ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Floptical drive details (87 lines)
- Keywords: floptical disk long
- Message-ID: <4445@wet.UUCP>
- Date: 4 Nov 92 18:13:44 GMT
- References: <DKoppen.21@air31.larc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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- In article <DKoppen.21@air31.larc.nasa.gov> DKoppen@air31.larc.nasa.gov (Daniel Koppen) writes:
- > Since my original posting I have noticed a few 'quirks' that might be
- >worth mentioning.
- >Quirk 1 - If the floptical drive can not read an inserted disk for
- > whatever reason, the drive will not read any subsequent disks
- > even if they are formated properly. You MUST reboot (warm boot OK)
- >Quirk 2 - The floptical drive reads, writes, and formats 'standard' floppy
- > disks. This includes both high and double density formats, but
- > NOT 10 sector or other custom atari formats. Go back to Quirk 1.
- >Quirk 3 - You can not do disk-to-disk transfers even if the disk in the
- > floptical is identical format to the one in the floppy. The
- > message is that the floptical is a hard drive and does not
- > support that type of operation. However, you do not go back
- > to Quirk 1.
-
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- These quirks are quite interesting. Especially #2, since all of my floppies
- have a 10-sector format.
-
- I wonder if Quirk 1 is an ICDBOOT problem that may be fixed in the future.
-
- If you don't mind, I'm going to leave mail to ICD on GEnie and see what they
- say about these problems.
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