Re: FDHD Blues

["Seth D. Kadesh" <thes+@CMU.EDU>]

Not like I'm an expert on this stuff or anything.... (I just play one
on the net!)

florpch@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Lawrence S Lee) writes:

[I claim that the RamFAST 3.00L will work with the 21 meg floptical
drives]
> 
> One more silly question, they'll write to disk, as well?  If so, it seems as
> though it's just plain silly to buy a superdrive, since the floptical will
> do so...

Exactly.  And the price is about the same (for the drive mechanisms),
although the 21 meg media is more expensive.

> 
> the floptical is obviously a different mechanism than the one in apple 3.5"
> 800k non-superdrive drives, so then IF an fst were available, would MS-DOS
> read be available?
> 

It should work fine.  The FSTs control how the information is
translated and interpreted, not how the information is physically read
off the disk.  If the drive is physically capable of reading the disk
(and the floptical drive will read 720k and 1.44k formats), and an FST
exists to interpret the data (insert you HFS or MS-DOS FST), then
you're all set.

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