Magneto Opticals
On 18 Jul 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> You must have a 1.2MB or 1.44MB floppy disk drive as the a: drive in
> the system upon which you will install Linux. If you have both a 1.2MB
> and a 1.44MB drive, you could configure the hardware so that the
> 1.44MB drive is a:, if this is not too difficult.
While I'm thinking of this, has anyone given anythough to
installing/running from a Magneto Optical?
We just got one in today, 640Meg 3.5 inch disk that fits in a normal
floppy slot! The drive itself was made by Fujitsu and cost 500$ cdn, right
now that includes a special offer of 5 640Meg disks as well. My
understanding is that the various MO companies want to take on Zip/Jazz
and are planning to plummet prices by December this year.
With 640Meg rewritable optical storage you could likely do some very
interesting things with the Debian distribution (updateable mirror
anyone?) The only negative right now is that we have been quoted 50$ per
disk for the media, but that price might be inflated -- not sure yet.
Jason
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