origins of IBM 3740 diskette format

[Jules Richardson]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 23:50 -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> I have a SCSI floppy drive - itself an oddity, in my experience - that
> has 256-byte sectors.  I keep it not so much because I want a SCSI
> floppy per se as because it's the only SCSI device I have with
> <512-byte sectors.

A lot of SCSI-ST506 bridge boards present 256 byte sectors to the host,
FWIW, and I expect you have a few of those in various machines :)