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- From: owinebar@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Lynn Winebarger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dell HD Floppy Question
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 06:42:04 GMT
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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- References: <150562@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <150562@cup.portal.com>,
- Kevin W Davidson <soft-logik@cup.portal.com> wrote:
- >I got a new Dell High Density Floppy drive and hooked it up to
- >my A2000 (A2630, KS 3.1). It works OK on low density floppy
- >disks but with High Density I have problems.
- >
- >1) When trying to format a HD floppy in Amiga format, it says
- >1760 Bytes, but then it says it can't Format Cylinder 0. On
- >a couple of disks, it did start to format, but then failed
- >on cylinder 44 (both drives).
-
- When I got this drive I had a similar problem, but it kept on working
- on my dealer's machine. Then I tried making sure the connection was tight,
- and it worked.
- And the connection is _tight_ once you give it a good shove.
-
- Lynn
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