[ILUG] Floppy problems

[Niall O Broin]

On 5 Apr 2005, at 19:54, Brian Foster wrote:

>  Apple Lisa, but I may be confused by its add-on HDD,
>  whose physical format was weird with 528-byte physical
>  sectors; I cannot specially recall if the Apple Lisa's
>  flippies were weirdly physically formatted or not?)

I suspect they were - the earliest floppy format on the Mac was an 800K 
format that physically couldn't be read by PC hardware, and it's a 
reasonable assumption that this was inherited from the Lisa (I think 
they were both descendants of the IWM). This is a disk format that 
Linux never understood, for hardware reasons. (Note skilful hauling of 
thread back on topic)



Niall