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To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (44415)	1/22/1998 4:16:00 PM
From: Troy Shaw	Read Replies (2) of 58324

Andy, <<(I never trust my data on removable magnetic data storage including Zip, SparQ and tape drive).>> I believe you have stated in the past that you use Magneto Optical drives, right? I don't see the "big" advantage. MO drives record their information magnetically, and read optically. That makes them succeptible to dataloss from a magnetic field, just like the other products you listed. <<Backward compatibility isn't that hard to achieve, in the worst case you just need an additional r/w head. >> That is an extreme over simplification. The motor must be able to handle speeds for the differing media. You must have a mechanism for loading and unloading two different heads. The tribology (head / media wear) is different for both media types. The gap between the head and the media must be different for both media types -- this is my big problem with HiFd's dual gap head. It seems to me that eather you have the floppy's over sized "head" too close to the HiFd 200MB media (wearing out the media), or the HiFd 200MB head is too close to the 1.44 media (destroying the head). I'm not saying there isn't a solution. I am just curious how they plan to deal with it. No matter how you slice it, I see putting dirty 1.44MB media in the drive as a problem. <<A friend of mine has a Compaq equipped with a LS-120, he never have any problem to use 1.44MB floppy. >> Your friend obviously hasn't ran serious stress tests against it. The LS120 does not have near the media wear life as the Zip.

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