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From: JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:  Unidisks vs. Apple3.5
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Date: 17 Feb 89 14:39:58 GMT
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> My //gs system came with Unidisk3.5 instead of the Apple3.5
>
> I know that the Unidisk is not capable of 2:1 interleave and thus
> some software packages will not run with the device.

From everything that I have read, the Unidisk *IS* capable of reading
and writing to disks formatted with a 2:1 interleave.  It is just
that the access will be considerably slower than if the disk was
formatted with a 4:1 interleave.

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