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- From: Andy@lando.demon.co.uk (Andrew Oland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AT Floppy drives are different, but how?
- Date: 16 Apr 96 03:55:51 +0000
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- On 15-Apr-96 05:43:56, Antti J. Roppola wrote about AT Floppy drives are different, but how?,
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- AJR> I recall that AT were unable to secure the original DD floppy drives
- AJR> and so used a modified mechanism from another manfacturer. This
- AJR> resulted in some incompatibility problems.
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- AJR> Now this is no problem for me, but a club member has an AT 1200
- AJR> and would like info' on a modification that could be made to
- AJR> improve things, or at least on how the drives differed.
- AJR> (I remember reading about the last bit, but my Amiga is a C=)
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- There is a small sofware hack that fixes it. I don't know where
- you'll find it (probably Aminet) but like you I have a C= machine so
- if never had to use it.
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- Andy
- "Good Enough" is the death knell of progress.
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