Older floppies, newer hardware...

12 Dec 2004

...
   There are
VAXen that have SCSI bridgeboards to control 3.5" 1.44Meg
 floppy drives via the SCSI bus - [...]  I've been playing around with Torch
Manta board which do exactly the
 same thing; they'll run up to 4 drives of mixed types (plus I have
 the relevant protocol spec). 
Kicking around somewhere, I have a 3?" SCSI floppy drive.  I keep it
because (a) it's my only SCSI floppy (unless you count zip disks as
floppies) and (b) it's the only SCSI device I have that shows up as a
disk drive but has sectors smaller than 512 bytes.  (I forget its
sector size - probably either 256 or 128 bytes.  I remember that it was
a power of two less than 512, and <=64 would be implausibly small.)

I also have a disk drive that has 1024-byte sectors, which I keep
around because it's my only disk with sectors *over* 512 bytes.

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