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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (32950)10/22/1997 12:44:00 PM
From: FuzzFace   of 58324
 
<I'm rather dismayed by the lack of response to my technical question. This is a most important legitimate question that must be asked before all of the RAH RAH RAH about no.hand can be continued. Does adopting no.hand mean that cameras would have to format each no.hand disc with a common OS (Win95)?>

We're addressing it now, right?

IOMEGANs can RAH RAH RAH n-hand, just as you do SYQT's vaperware. I don't see any difference.

No. It is possible for the n-hand to have it's own file system. Then both PC and MAC would have to be taught (via software) to understand it.

OR, they could use an existing file system (such as FAT16, the most common) and PC's would need no new software. They don't need a whole OS in the camera, just enough instructions to read and write the files using the file system decided on. The disks could be pre-formatted, like Zip is.

Let's keep Operating Systems and File Systems straight. An O/S utilizes a F/S to move data to and from storage devices. When a device has been setup to use a particular F/S, it is stuck using that F/S until the next time the setup program is run. DOS and successor systems use FDISK to setup a disk into FAT16 partition(s). Win95 OSR2 added FAT32 support. Win NT added NTFS support via the Disk Administrator utility. IBM's OS/2 added HPFS. But any O/S can be taught to use any F/S. It's just a matter of whether the O/S vendor is willing to commit the resources to it. But it's always just an add-on (service pack, or whatever MAC calls them) away.
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