At 4:06 AM -0400 9/15/01, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 05:11 PM, Dave Huang wrote:
>
>>
>>Well, you're still not using the block device, for one thing... but
>>also, floppy support is limited to 800K DSDD floppies. Most people don't
>>put MSDOS filesystems on those, so I suspect you're trying to mount a
>>high density 1.44MB floppy. That won't work...
>
>I am just coming back to 68K OS's and last I heard, the 800K floppy 
>was the difficult item to support... at least when doing Mac 
>emulation on a PC since the drive is variable speed and almost 
>impossible to support. ... I thought FDHD drives did indeed work, 
>however.

Not at all.  That is precisely the situation I would expect on PC 
hardware.  The opposite is true on Mac68k because of the hardware is 
built to support the variable-speed Mac format first.
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