15 Nov
1998
15 Nov
'98
12:48 p.m.
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.