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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floptical disk drive / New Hard disk
Message-ID: <7028@well.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 88 08:59:13 GMT
References: <290@sagpd1.UUCP> <6888@well.UUCP> <695@vedge.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "I'm in Hell, and it's full of Avons."  -- Vila

In article <695@vedge.UUCP> lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) writes:
>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.  [ ... ]
>
>The Kodak 3.3 and 6.6Meg floppy's (5.25") also do the same thing.  They
>need special pre-formatted disks.  [ ... ]

	I *think* you may misunderstand.  The servo tracks on the Floptical
media are inscribed with lasers, and are permanent.  It is therefore
impossible to damage the servo tracks magnetically, since they're read
optically (hence the name "Floptical").

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