Accessing partitions in drive images

[OK? Im Deluxe!]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> On 01/30/2012 11:02 AM, OK? Im Deluxe! wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 08:53:37PM -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> >>>    (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?
> > Typically, no.  Neither were any of the various tape devices that
> > used the PC floppy drive controller interface.
>
> Sigh. I have to say: "Typically, yes". I did use a Bernoulli and IOMega 
> "flopticals" that acted like AT-style hard drives. I may still have a 
> few floating about in the barn. (But doubt if I have a working computer 
> that they'll connect to.)

Those are different beasts, really.  The floptical/LS-120 style
devices acted like floppy drives, because, well, they were floppy
drives, just with optical positioning to enable higher data
density.

The Bernoulli removable disks, and the later Iomega products (Zip,
Jaz, REV), and similar products by other vendors were all removable
"fixed" disks, using SCSI, IDE/ATAPI or Parallel Port (I think this
was SCSI over IEEE-1284, but I might be misremembering) interfaces,
and act as you describe.  They weren't 'flopticals', as there was no
optical component in the drives, they were purely magnetic media.

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