modern removable media drives

From: Stephen Dauphin <ai705_at_osfn.org>
Date: Sun Nov 15 20:48:36 1998

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Chuck McManis wrote:

> My understanding of MO drives was the the servo tracks were optical (and
> thus very dense and accurate) but the data tracks were still magnetic
> with a conventional read/write/erase head.

You may be thinking of a floptical.

I'm not sure if the magnetic head in an MO bears any relation to the
heads of other magnetic media drives. The reason for this thought is the
fact that the optical part, the laser, does much more than serve as a
guide for magnetic part. The laser reads, erases and does most of the
work of writing.
Received on Sun Nov 15 1998 - 20:48:36 GMT