Re: More Floptical Questions

[just.dave@genie.com]

wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager) writes:

>Nels E Satterlund (Nels_E_Satterlund@ccm.fm.intel.com) wrote:
>: After playing with my drive it has quit giving me the option to format a 
>: disk under GSOS as 20 megs, only 720k.  So what exactly does a Floptical 
>: disk look like?  The ones I've got look like a 3.5 with the density hole 
>: in a position nearer the front of the disk than a standard 1.44

>Slide back the metal shutter on the disk and hold it up to the light.  A 
>Floptical disk is translucent; you can see through it.  The ones I have 
>seen are all amber in color.  If you can't see through it, what you have 
>is just a regular floppy.

Floptial disks also usually have a lowercase 'f' in a circle in the upper
right hand corner of the disk, when holding it with the shutter side up.
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