Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > >> Flash drives wouldn't work as floppies, so they're treated as fixed > >> disks. > > > > What does this mean? Why wouldn't USB sticks or MMC/SD cards work > > `as floppies'? > > Because then we wouldn't be able to use a flash drive/card bigger > than 2.88 MB. > > (I think 2.88 MB is the biggest floppy disk size defined by IBM-PC > conventions. But if there are others, they're around that size.)
What about `flopticals', LS-120s, etc.? Were they partitioned like HDDs? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
