Re: IIgs floppy questions

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

"doug holverson" <dholvrsn@netins.net> wrote in message
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> What's the most amount of 3.5" and 5" floppy drives that a person sanely
can
> daisy chain to a IIgs?

You can have two drives of each size attached to the IIgs.  The 3.5 drives
are chained before the 5.25 drives.

> What's the difference between initializing a 800K 2:1 and a 800 4:1
floppy?

The interleave determines how far apart the contiguous blocks of data
are physically stored from each other.  A 2:1 interleave means that the
next data sector is 2 sectors down; a 4:1 means the next sector is 4
sectors down.  Obviously a smaller interleave means that you can
retrieve data faster off of the floppy.
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