3B2 Floppy Drive

[Dominick Samperi]

In article <581 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>Is /dev/rdiskette on a 3B2/400 a 720K device, a 1.4M device, or a 1.2M device?

None of the above! It doesn't use the last cylinder to store data, so it is
a 711K device. 80 cylinders are formatted though, and I could only get it to
work with standard DD diskettes (no HD diskettes). A product will be announced
in comp.newprod soon that will read/write cpio (or tar) format archives under
MSDOS, using an AT-type 1.2Meg drive, so that the archive (possibly spanning
multiple floppies) is compatible with the 3B2's floppy drive/controller/format.
(This is only one of many features of this product, tentatively named STAR.)
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Dominick Samperi -- ESCC
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