>>>Umm... 8" is what pretty much defines RX02s... I don't know of an RX02
>>>which was other than 8"
>>
>>You gotta get out of the development world and into the real world
>>a little more often, Megan :-). I do a lot of software development
>>for ADAC NMR (aka MRI) scanners that run a heavily modified RT-11 V4,
>>where the 5.25" 80-track floppies are basically treated as if they
>>were double-sided RX02's. (i.e. the geometry only uses 77 tracks,
>>and actually skips the first track, just like a real RX02!)
>
>That may be (about getting out of the development world...) but
>my statement stands. A true RX02 is pretty much defined as being
>an 8" floppy... you said so yourself in this response by saying that
>it was 'treated as if' it were an RX02... But the fact is that a
>3.5" or 5.25" (or some size other than 8") device which is 'treated
>as if' it were an RX02 *IS NOT* an RX02.
In the case of this SMS-1000 and it's wierd disk controller I suspect that
it might be able to emulate the RX02 on a 5.25" disk, which was the reason
for the original statement. However, I've got a second SMS-1000 that was
Identical to this one, prior to my changing some stuff, that is different
only in that it has a 8" drive.
Zane
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Received on Mon Aug 24 1998 - 00:19:37 BST