Re: MORE on flopticals and their ilk

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

florpch@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Lawrence S Lee) writes:
> I'm curious: would the big 128-megger SCSI optical drives work on a GS?
> 

If it's SCSI, it should work.  You may need a driver to take advantage
of features like removability....

> Also, what sort of disk does a floptical use? Does it kinda look like any
> other floppy disk? From what I understand, flopticals use a laser or
> something to read/write, which results in more data being stored, right?

The 21 Meg floptical drives use special disks that look like normal
3.5 floppy disks.  The read/write head on the floptical drive is
magnetic, but it uses a laser to track.  This results in more accurate
tracking, and the drive can pack more tracks on the same amount of
surface area.

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