Accessing partitions in drive images

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:02 AM, OK? Im Deluxe!
<mwl+gnhlug at alumni.unh.edu> wrote:
>> 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.

  Well, now, the hang-a-tape-drive-off-the-floppy-controller thing was
something else entirely.  As far as I know, there was never any
standard PC/BIOS/DOS/whatever interface for tape drives, so if someone
made one of those they had to invent their own thing.

  But I find it interesting that the "super floppies" behaved like
floppies.  My understanding is (was) that the PC had a rather narrow
idea of what a floppy disk could be (360, 1.2, 720, 1.44, 2.88, maybe
a few more).  How did that work?

-- Ben