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From: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk
Message-ID: <695@vedge.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 22:27:03 GMT
References: <290@sagpd1.UUCP> <6888@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai)
Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, PQ
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In article <6888@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	The drive takes a specially formatted 3.5" floppy on which it can
>store 20M.  This can be read or written.  In addition, the drive can read
>ordinary 3.5" floppies, but it can't write to them.
>	They're projecting samples available late this year, and production
>early next year.

The Kodak 3.3 and 6.6Meg floppy's (5.25") also do the same thing.  They
need special pre-formatted disks.  Unfortunately these preformatted disks
use a fixed 17 sector/track format that is different from AmigaDOS so
to make it work with the ami, I suspect one would have to write a
new handler.  (Is there a handler already that you can tell it number of
sectors/tk, size of sector, etc..?).

I guess the 20M 3.5" would be the same sort of thing.
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