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Re: Does it exist? Mac USB Floppy drive r/w 800k & ProDOS disks?

Subject: Re: Does it exist? Mac USB Floppy drive r/w 800k & ProDOS disks?
From: CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 21:08:20 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Bell Sympatico
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:35:05 -0700, Ernie Leimkuhler
<ernie@stagesmith.com> wrote:

>The only SCSI Floppy drive made was the 20 MB Floptical drive.
>It could read and write 800k and 1.4 MB floppies as well as it's own 20 MB 
>optical disks.

If I remember correctly, the Flopticals didn't support variable
rotation speeds or GCR encoding required for 800K support.  They only
did 720K and 1440K MFM and their own format (20M being most common and
I believe still MFM).

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