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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: Escom 4000T & HD Floppy question
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- References: <4hdhcu$sep@blackice.winternet.com> <4he6aj$92h@daily-planet.execpc.com>
- Message-ID: <peterk.0lhs@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 6 Mar 96 23:52:55 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
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- In article <4he6aj$92h@daily-planet.execpc.com> innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen) writes:
- >In article <4hdhcu$sep@blackice.winternet.com> jcsky@winternet.com (Joe Solinsky) writes:
- >>
- >> I suspect that there is SOME KIND OF MECHANISM that is doing this
- >> to me, deep in the bowells of the floppy drive. Note that this is what
- >> was shipped with the Tower, which is still totally stock, so don't give
- >> me the "Yeah, it's your Emplant board" lines, I won't fall for it.
- >
- > According to what I've read, all the new Amigas have high density floppy
- >drive mechanisms jumped to run only in low density mode. This was done becase
- >these mechanisms were cheaper than trying to find low density floppy drives
- >these days.
-
- Nearly correct. Only that they are not jumpered. Any HD drive in the
- world recognizes a DD disk and treats it accordingly, no jumpers needed.
- But if you insert a HD disk (recognizable through the second hole), the
- drive wants to treat it as (PC) HD, and that fails with the Paula chip.
-
- Solution: If you have HD disks formatted to DD, just put a sticker on
- that second coding hole so that the drive recognizes them as DD.
-
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