Accessing partitions in drive images

[OK? Im Deluxe!]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:49:40PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> 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?

I don't recall any special issues, but the LS120 SuperDisk drive
I had was the SCSI variant, so there were already drivers loaded
for the SCSI hardware.  It definitely presented to DOS/Windows as a
floppy drive, and would read/write/boot from normal 1.44MB floppies
using the same software interface used to access the 120MB disks.

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