Re: Ramfast Card (rom versions)

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <l558304@pro-ahamt.cts.com>, Main SySoP writes...
> 
> Flopticals can store up to 19.8 megs fromated on a IIGS.

    I was playing with the RamFAST's "Backup to HD" option yesterday and
stumbled upon something.  I was trying to backup my 20480K boot
partition onto a floptical.  At first, I didn't think it would work, but
I tried it anyway.  After the backup, the RamFAST had reported 11 errors
total, but an otherwise complete backup.  Satisfied that the option
actually does work with a floptical, I erase it.  To my surprise, both
the Finder and the RamFAST utility offered me a 20-megabyte partition
(exactly 20480K, not 19.8 megabytes).  This seemed a little unlikely,
but I proceeded anyway and then did a block verify with the Finder.  All
40960 blocks verified without error.  I would have thought that the ones
past the 19.8-meg limit would have given an error.  So it *appears* that
I have a full 20 megabytes on one floptical.
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