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- From: cm6700@ccub.wlv.ac.uk (G.Nath)
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- Subject: Re: Amiga Floppies - How Dense???
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 14:58:56 +0100
- Organization: University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
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- reggie@netshel.net (Reggie Hall) writes:
-
- >I am having a floppy drive problem with my A2000. I replaced the CIA chips
- >and everything seems to be working except my floppy drive.
-
- Your drive is dead, misaligned head, or has entered an alternate
- universe.
-
- >So the big question is...do these machines use a standard 720K floppy drive,
- >or a high density 1.44M floppy drive?
-
- A2000 uses a *custom* 880K disk drive. It costs around 30ukp to
- get hold of one brand new, cheaper 2nd usr.
-
- >I need to know for test purposes. I have installed a 1.44M drive, (which I
- >borrowed from my PC), but I get a "DF0 BAD" icon on my workbench. This leads
- >me to believe I should be using a 720K drive.
-
- I don`t think that would work at all, however i have seen some
- docs on Aminet in hard/hack, it allows you to connect std. PC FD
- to Amigas, it looks kind of complex but if that doesn`t bother
- you, you could give it a bash.
-
- GVN
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