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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga Floppies - How Dense???
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 15:31:27 GMT
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- Johan Zeylon IN/SA/B (etxzayl@cate1.ericsson.se) wrote:
- : In article dp6@ccub.wlv.ac.uk, cm6700@ccub.wlv.ac.uk (G.Nath) writes:
- : >reggie@netshel.net (Reggie Hall) writes:
- : >>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.
- : >
- : No no no... It's a standard 720k drive.
- : I _know_ that. I have replaced them with 720k drives.
-
- Well, yes. On the Amiga, a "720K" double-density drive holds 880K.
- However, on a lot of drives meant for PC clones you may have to adjust
- jumpers to pass through a diskchange signal, or adjust the cable to put
- that signal on the pin the Amiga expects it on.
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