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- From: farren@shore.net (Mike Farren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hack for PC-->Amiga floppy drive?
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 19:48:10 -0500
- Organization: Focus Studios
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- Matt Anderson writes:
-
- >Does anyone have the hack to connect a high-density PC floppy drive to an
- >A3000 such that I can read/write high-density Amiga floppies?
-
- There isn't one. Or, at least, if there is, it involves building a
- special-purpose controller board for the drive, complete with CPU.
-
- >I've heard that people use drives made for Dell laptops for this purpose.
- >True?
-
- False. The only way to do high-density disks on an Amiga, lacking
- the special controller mentioned above (and I don't even know if
- anyone's ever done it - could have, it wouldn't be at all difficult,
- one 8751 would handle the job, I think), is to have a drive that
- will spin at half-speed, which is how the Commodore HD drives
- did it. The only firm that ever manufactured such a thing, as
- far as I know, is Chinon.
-
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