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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Removable mass storage devices
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.050442.16699@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 05:04:42 GMT
References: <7516@hub.ucsb.edu>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <7516@hub.ucsb.edu>, by tom@bears.ucsb.edu (Tom Weinstein):
> There are a number of vendors with 128MB 3.5 inch magneto-optical
> drives.  The specs I've seen for these all advertise 28 msec average
> seek times.  I believe Pinnacle was one of these.

Does anybody know if magneto-optical drives are meant to be used like a
regular hard drive -- spinning all the time reading writing, writing reading,
hours, days, weeks, months, years...
I read articles about 20Mb FLOPPY drives.  The only problem I see is that
the disk surface might not be able to take the daily use like a hard drive.
Any comments?

E. Teng Ong (ong@d.cs.okstate.edu)
Computer Science Dept.
Oklahoma State University
(Opinions are mine and mine alone)