>Cameron> Because the 1581, while MFM, isn't FAT. >Please explain. I thought that all 3.5" drives used MFM so.... I have no >troubles reading a MSX-floppy i.e. I can read sectors. The PC itself cannot do >anything with it because the structure is different. Similar situation on the 1581 disks. The directory format and file structures are different. READ81S makes BIOS calls and essentially acts like the 1581's higher level programming. >I was also told that the 3.5" drives where "intelligent". I never found out >what was meant with this. Does anybody know? (I know that NOT is meant that >those drives have there own little CPU like the C= drives, or am I wrong in >this?) If by 3.5" drives you mean the 1581, they are intelligent devices. I've understood intelligent to *definitely* mean they have their own CPU, which the 1581's (and all other Commodore serial devices) do. -- Cameron Kaiser *** http://calvin.ptloma.edu/~spectre/ *** spectre@ptloma.edu "Please dispose of this message in the usual manner." -- Mission: Impossible - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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