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- From: Greenl@metrolink.net (Greenl)
- Subject: Re: Hi-Density with 4000T & 2000
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- Date: 23 Mar 96 07:45:52 GMT
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-
- >Does anyone know of a way to get a high denisty drive internally for the
- >A2000 or A4000T? My friend wants to access MS-DOS HD for IBM info. Can
- >this be done by using a IBM 1.44MB floppy on an AMiga? Or will the new
- >HD disk drives fix that? Thanks. I would like to get full use out of
- >the HD floppies I have laying around with my 2000. Any ideas or
- >suggestions. Thanks.
-
- The Chinon Amiga HD drives are rare as hen's teeth. I have heard that the AT
- 4000T comes with a PC-type HD drive (which functions only as a DD Amiga
- drive), simply because HD's are cheap, and DD's are probably unavailable now.
- All other approaches to an Amiga HD floppy seem to have drawbacks and/or poor
- reliability, from what I hear at shows and read on the nets.
-
- So I guess you might install a bridgeboard in the 4000T, and find that
- you could share the floppy, and have it work in HD mode from the bridgeboard,
- for PC disks only. But I doubt it. I tried to share df0 in a Commodore-
- manufactured 4000T, where the floppy is a Chinon HD. Due to some changes
- made in the floppy interface, sharing does not work. I had two computers and
- two bridgeboards, and I tried every combination of jumpers, cables, etc. One
- of the designers said he thought he had done this test, but wasn't sure.
- Things at Commodore were pretty hectic during this era, and stuff was falling
- though the cracks more than usual.
-
- If the Chinon doesn't work, a standard PC HD drive probably has less of a
- chance, but might warrant a test.
-
- I am making this message to "all" because Lee Stanford and I would both
- like to know if anyone else had any luck doing a shared drive with any
- type floppy in a 4000T.
-
- A bridgeboard subsystem with its own floppy may be the best or only way.
-
- Hal Greenlee
- HardDrivers Co.
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