Accessing partitions in drive images

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> <rozzin at 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?

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