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Anything more that you can drag out of it, or are allowed without trickery on 74 minute blanks, is entirely up to the manufacturer, the media quality, how good your drive is, and even what speed you run at. The industry standard is what's stamped on the label or encoded in the TOC (650mb/74 min, 700mb/80 min, 4483/4888mb aka 4.37Gb). It's similar to overburning CDRs and DVDRs. Floppies are, after all, not much more than flattened audio tapes, with the inherent variability that comes with. You just did whatever you thought - or discovered by testing - your media was capable of. The custom formats, particularly the common and reliable 80tr 10sec (or 81/82tr 10sec, with the 81st/82nd track used by games for saving hi-scores or other less crucial information) sure were useful, but there was never any kind of agreed standard for it. menu item, and let it run a double sided format (oh so slow! but more reliable than the fast formatters) you'd get out a bog standard, damn-near-MSDOS compatible (or with the later TOS versions, absolutely MSDOS compatible), 80-track, 9-sector, 720KB (712.5KB usable) disk. If you inserted a freshly unwrapped, unformatted DSDD at the GEM desktop, single clicked the A: icon, went to the File > Format.
Does a usb floppy emulator disable the 2nd floppy drive install#
Some programs came on 11 sectored disks using interlacing.īecause none of those were standard, they were ALL custom formats, and you can do that on any machine with suitable access to the hardware (you can get PC formatters that will wring almost the full 2mb out of a disk - whether or not its a good idea - and also skew-format them to be 3 or 4 times faster, similar to Microsoft's Win9x / Office 4 install floppies). Don't forget there were the 3 or 4 MSDOS disks to get through first, however! 193.63.174.11 ( talk) 19:08, 7 February 2011 (UTC) It doesn't take THAT much time to read the entire contents of a single DSHD in one go.
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6 main disks plus networking extras or something.
Does a usb floppy emulator disable the 2nd floppy drive windows#
Windows used 7 floppies before Windows'95 'more than twice as thick, almost the size of a standard compact audio cassette.' = 2:3 the thickness of main body of a standard compact audio cassette (= length & 5:4 width). 'One example is the rectangular-shaped plastic casing, almost taller than a 3½-inch disk,' = 4" so = taller than 3½" disk. Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.170.52.157 ( talk) 00:42, 26 January 2009 (UTC) errors + floppies Especially in Radio Shack and other rare computer systems.
I wish there was more info on 8" floppies and their formats.
Ham Pastrami ( talk) 01:40, 20 March 2009 (UTC) More on 8" disks It's really not our job to rate the usefulness of the subject. I don't disagree with what you said, but the word obsolete/obsolescent is something of a WP:PEACOCK - if we competently describe the disk and how it compares to newer technologies (which I think the article does do), the reader should be able to form a judgment for themselves, without us making that determination for them. S HEFFIELDS TEEL TALK 13:17, 19 March 2009 (UTC). Dicklyon ( talk) 18:04, 25 December 2008 (UTC) It might be a workable compromise to refer to the format as a whole as obsolescent, meaning that it is becoming obsolete. Here is one that in 2004 calls the 3 1/2" formats "current" and older ones "obsolete". Josestefan ( talk) 17:17, 25 December 2008 (UTC) Your opinion is fine, but the article needs to be based on sources. By looking at the obsolete article I would describe the floppy disk as having "Technical obsolescence".
There are lots of items in use in the world today which are in fact obsolete. Some people may use them for nostalgia reasons, or simply because it just works. Remember, just because a minority of people use it, doesn't mean it is not obsolete technology. Is just that they don't meet ALL the types of obsolescence. In my opinion, floppy disk are in fact obsolete.