Re: Flopticals are cool

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

In article <ogu1ZRu00WCSBDtqIU@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Seth D. Kadesh" writes...
> 
> Picked up a floptical drive the other day for $285, which is the lowest
> price I've ever seen.                         ^^^^

    Wow, that's really amazing!  Who did you buy from?  External, eject
button, dual SCSI ports, SCSI ID selector, cable and one free disk?

> I don't have all of the SCSI cables yet, so I couldn't hook it up to my
> GS without unhooking the hard drive. I'm running this on a RamFAST 3.0k
> (I think it's k).

    3.00k has some bugs with flopticals.  For one thing, I don't think
it flushes the write cache when you eject it, corrupting the disk.  Once
in a while, the floptical also goes offline momentarily with the 3.00k.

> I was able to format a high density disk at 1.4 Meg, but I couldn't
> format a floptical at 21 Meg.

    Don't try to low-level format a floptical.  It will take close to
half an hour.  They come pre-formatted anyway.  I just used the RF
utilities to add a single 20-meg partition which only takes a few
seconds to write out.
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