dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) (01/31/91)
I was doing a trade technical magazine search in the Lexis/Nexis data base of Mead Data Central and found an article about high capacity floppies. Here is a device that I found under the key word search "floptical"- holds about 22 megs per disk 65 ms access time uses 3.5" disks that are specially formatted with an opticly read pattern on some sort of barrium oxide media. reads and writes magneticly uses a scsi interface downward compatible with 720k & 1.44m. the cost: $795.00 and about $10 per preformatted disk. The article said that it would be available this April. I think I want 10 of 'em. Does anyone know anything about this? -- "^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"^~"~^"^~"^~"^~ Douglas Bell dab6@po.cwru.edu
akcs.bill@point.UUCP (Bill Wolff) (02/06/91)
I find nothing wrong with it. I use high byte floppies for HD all the time. In fact, I don't mind switching those little 3.5 disks anyway. As long as the disk drive is 60us or so access time, I don't mind at all. Bear in mind that I don't usually load more than 640K in my computer. So maybe this is why it doesn't bother me.
pasquale@sgl (Pasquale Leone) (02/08/91)
In article <27aef7f6-244e.2comp.ibmpc-1@point.UUCP> akcs.bill@point.UUCP (Bill Wolff) writes: >I find nothing wrong with it. I use high byte floppies for HD all the >time. In fact, I don't mind switching those little 3.5 disks anyway. As >long as the disk drive is 60us or so access time, I don't mind at all. >Bear in mind that I don't usually load more than 640K in my computer. So >maybe this is why it doesn't bother me. What is this discussion about? This is the only article I've seen. Are there 20meg floppy drives available? How much $ ? pasquale@sgl.ists.ca
ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) (02/09/91)
From article <27aef7f6-244e.2comp.ibmpc-1@point.UUCP>, by akcs.bill@point.UUCP (Bill Wolff): > I find nothing wrong with it. I use high byte floppies for HD all the > time. In fact, I don't mind switching those little 3.5 disks anyway. As > long as the disk drive is 60us or so access time, I don't mind at all. ^^ I think that's ms for milliseconds. Doesn't the floppy need 1/2 second or so to spin up to speed *every* time you need access (unless you are using a write-back disk cache)? > Bear in mind that I don't usually load more than 640K in my computer. So > maybe this is why it doesn't bother me. Does it "wear out" the floppy disk surface? Does it make significant noise? Maybe I was wrong. Please let us know.