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From: marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Here's the dope on Kennect Technology and Rapport (LONG)
Message-ID: <50949@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 91 15:06:19 GMT
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In article <91083.205904KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>Re: the Rapport and the Kennect 2.4.
>
>As the Rapport is a "dongle" can you use any external floppy drive with
>it or is there something special about Kennects drives (apart from the
>price?)
>
I believe that you have to use either Apple's drives or Kennect's drives.  Last
I heard, they had not qualified any other 3rd party drive.  I think their own
and Apple's drives are built to tighter specs (I'm not real sure what part of
the 3rd party drives doesn't meet Kennect's needs--the seeking, etc.).  
Kennect's drives are also different than Apple's in the way they handle
error correction, which is why they can get 2.4mb using their drive and
can't with Apple's (they combine GCR and MFM formatting techniques to
achieve both their 2.4mb on a DSHD disk and 1.2mb on a DSDD disk).

Mark


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