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- From: joewald@crl.com (Joseph Waldvogel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: How?? Installing 1.44 FD for the A2000?
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 01:41:12 GMT
- Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access
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- >> You can't use a standard clone floppy drive on the Amiga. I don't
- >> know exactly what the differance is but they are differant. If they
- >> were the same Amiga Tech wouldn't have had any problems finding HD
- >> floppies for the A4000T. Why do you think it shipped with DD
- >> floppies? If you want a HD floppy in your A2000 you need to aquire an
- >> A3000 replacement drive & swap the front bezel with your old chinon.
- >> You do need WB2.0+ HD floppies were not supported under older
- >> versions of WB.
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- > Okay, are you saying that the best replacement for a HD drive would be
- >a Chinnon HD drive? Is this what the A3000 and maybe A4000 had in them? I
- >do know that the HD drive in the A4000 goes at half speed because of the
- >Puala problem. I'm also in a situation that if I replace my DD with the HD
- >I could then close the top on my A2000. As the Brige Board has a HD drive
- >attached to it. I would like to use it with both. Thanks.
-
- > -Marcus Damberger / N9RZE Amateur Radio
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- It's the Chinon FZ-357A High Density Floppy Drive to be more Exact. Others
- won't work. Have one Installed in my A1200.
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