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- From: amiken@nando.net (Kenneth Munn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Need HD floppy device driver
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 01:40:37 GMT
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- Hi Paul Kolenbrander, you wrote:
- :On Fri, 08 Mar 96, Joe Solinsky typed the following line(s):
-
- :> In my neverending story of installing Toaster Software, I'd like to
- :> get my hands on a High Density Floppy drive driver. I do indeed have
- :> the rare Chinon drives which spin down for high-density disks.
- :> I do not have a DOSdriver, though.
- :> I am assuming this is what I need, since my Escom 4000T does not have
- :> a mountlist for DF0: and is being handled by the device driver.
- :> Yes, we swapped out the stock floppy drive.
-
- :It's not software. It's a jumper on the A4000T board somewher. The
- :location of which should be in the manual.
-
- The jumper is on the SCSI interface AND it must be mounted as DF1:.
- The Hardware manual states DH0: CANNOT be High Density. There is no
- strap for DH0:. Also note, the drives in the Escom A4000t's DF0:
- slot is not a HD drive but senses the HD hole anyway so you MUST
- cover the HD hole to use one in DF0:... Good going Escom
-
- --
- Ken Munn amiken@parsifal.nando.net
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- "When I married Mr.Ogg, we had three dozen oysters at
- OUR wedding feast. Mind you, they didn't all work."
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- -- (Terry Pratchett, LORDS AND LADIES)
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