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- From: Walter.Harms@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE (Walter Harms)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1010 comp. disk drive question
- Date: 11 Jan 96 11:49:28 GMT
- Organization: C. v. Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg - Fachbereich Informatik
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- mjacobs@nickel.cs.umanitoba.ca (Martin Jacobs) writes:
-
- >Recently my trusty A1010 compatible disk drive died. The mechanism
- >(i.e. the actual drive) is a NEC 1037A, so my question is if the drive
- >can be replaced by a regular PC double density drive, or does it have
- >to be an Amiga specific drive ?
-
- baiscly there is no problem if you can swap the drives and
- adds a switch for diskchange. a first try can be done with
- _DC. then you habe to use the programm. the a simple way
- to get such signal is to add some wires to the switch in
- front of the disk and add them to pin2 (?) of the interface.
-
- walter
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