Re: a question of storage

[90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Roy Barrett's lips:
> 
> Brian Tao (90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA) wrote:
> [...]
> :     4.  Will read MS-DOS 720K and MS-DOS/ProDOS/Mac 1.44-meg disks.
> 
> Ahem, from what I saw from Todd P. Whitesel's (?) post said that it will
> _NOT_ read Mac/ProDOS disks.  I think he also said it wouldn't read MS-DOS
> disks.

    You cannot read _800K_ disks in the floptical drive because it uses MFM
encoding.  I suppose theoretically you could make 720K Mac and ProDOS
disks, but the FST or floptical driver might not let you do that.  HD
floppies shouldn't be a problem.

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