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- From: wwt5491@osfmail.isc.rit.edu (TONER)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hack for PC-->Amiga floppy drive?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 20:28:01 GMT
- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
- Message-ID: <4iv2gh$rr9@news.isc.rit.edu>
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- In article <4iq90a$c0@northshore.shore.net>,
- Mike Farren <farren@shore.net> wrote:
- >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.
-
- Nonsense. There are a few hacs on aminet to do this, it involves
- hacking the drive itself. There may be some reliablilty problems, I
- don't know how bad though...
-
- >
- >>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.
-
- Wrong again. A few Amiga dealers in the US sell Dell 1.76 external
- floppy drives for the Amiga. They look like they were designed for
- PC laptop users, but they also work on the Amiga as genuine high density
- drives. Don't tell me otherwise, my roommate has one, I've used it, it
- works great.
-
- Bill Toner II
- 3rd year Computer Engineering student, RIT
- Vice-President of ACURIT, Amiga Computer Users of RIt
-
-