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- From: wfblan@netcom.com (Wells Fargo Bank)
- Subject: Re: Double Density on the Draco
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- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 18:27:04 GMT
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-
- Benjamin Hutchings (worc0223@news.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Wells Fargo Bank (wfblan@netcom.com) wrote:
- : : I have good hopes that the newer Amigas to be revealed in March will have
- : : this fixed. All in time. My question is, will this new setup with the
- : : standard PC High Density floppies be able to auto-detect disks on the Amiga
- : : still, or will we lost that feature? Other than the 'clicking' which can
- : : be turned off, this feature is unique and helpful (I believe) on the Amiga!
-
- : Nope, it is not unique. The Mac does this and so do many Unix workstations.
- : Even PCs can do it now - look at MSBackup as supplied with MS-DOS 6.x. I
- : think Windows 95 detects disk changes as well.
-
- The way the Amiga does it in unique. The Mac uses a hardware switch to
- detect when a disk is in our out of the drive, and of course when a new
- disk is put in, the switch is triggered.
-
- I can't speak for Unix systems, but I presume they are similar.
-
- And for PC's doing it, I haven't seen or heard of it until now, but I
- don't doubt it is true (they always manage to catch up)! :)
-
- However, on the Amiga, there is a software/hardware solution that is
- unique. In any case, will the current way of auto-detecting go out
- the door, or will be have to go back to a more primitive way of doing
- it like the Mac does? That was more what I was wanting to know.
-
- Rob Bamford
- (wfblan@netcom.com)
-