Franklin wrote:

> --- jmiranda  wrote:
> > Hi, Franklin
> >
> > Do you know if this Mitsumi will work with xD cards from Olympus?
>
> I guess not. To find out more of this drive, go to
> http://www.mitsumi.com/indexusa.html
> Click on "Media Drives" and select FA404.
>
> These are the media supported:
>
> 1. Floppy Disk (1MB / 2 MB)
> 2. Compact Flash (Type I & II)
> 3. Microdrive
> 4. SecureDigital
> 5. Multimedia
> 6. Memory Stick
> 7. Memory Stick PRO
> 8. SmartMedia
>
> Interesting the 2 MB floppy. Is that the 2.88 ibm floppy? What would it
> take to try to format a 1.44 floppy to 2 MB?
>
> Franklin

 The 1MB floppy is actually what we remember as the 720KB (MF-DD) floppy and
the 2MB floppy is the 1.44MB (MF-HD) floppy. These are the "unformatted"
capacities.  The 2.88MB (MF-XD) floppy is refferred to as the 4MB floppy.

IBM and Microsoft had  extended floppy formats that crammed more data onto a
1.44MB floppy for OS install diskettes I think the Windows / DOS one was 1.67
MB and the OS/2 one 1.8MB, but it could have been the other way around.

Most motherboards still support 2.88MB floppy drives but I don't think any new
systems include them anymore, in fact in a lot of cases the floppy drive is
being removed completely as systems have CD-RW or even DVD-RW drives in them
now. IBM now supply a USB memory key instaed of the floppy drive with their
thinkpad notebooks.

Cheers/2

Ed.



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