Drive inventory

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 16:22:48 2002

Yes, they can read, but not write or format them. In fact, the utilitites
that are provided with the 20+20 drive pair won't low-level format the 20MB
media either. It simply rewrites the intermediate level format that it uses
internally. I've tried bulk-reasing seemingly unuseable packs and found that
the old drivers and utilities can recover packs that are useless with the
later software. I don't remember whether this included the 20 MB drives,
though, that is, I don't remember whether the old software would even handle
the 20 MB drives. I may have to give it a try someday.

Dick

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From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: Drive inventory


> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
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> > Well, you still need a dual 10MB drive then. Those things look just like
> > an old IBM PC/XT system, but are slightly larger.
>
> Can't the 20+20 read the 10MB media?
>
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