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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: A4000's with High Density Drives!
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- References: <48hd11$239@pellew.ntu.edu.au> <494kq5$b4t@malin.foa.se><wtw3lMDD4aez8@tsb049.toschibo.ruhr.de> <1110.6548T1282T480@ffi.no>
- Message-ID: <peterk.0jqx@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 96 22:59:03 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
-
- In article <1110.6548T1282T480@ffi.no> peh@ffi.no (Per Espen Hagen) writes:
- >William F. Maddock <wmaddock@icon-stl.net> wrote:
- >> John Verhoeven johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au wrote:
- >
- >>>So how do these Dell HD floppy drives do their stuff? It was reviewed by
- >>>Harv Laser in comp.sys.amiga.reviews but nothing was said on how they did
- >>>it.
- >
- >> They work in the same manner as the original A4000 drives did, by rotating at
- >> half speed in HD mode.
- >
- >Are you sure about this? ...Dr. Kittel, are you listening? Why weren't
- >these Dell drives considered, if they can actually run at half-speed and
- >work with Amigas in HD mode?
-
- Simple: Read here and in .hardware and find out that they are bad
- hacks, working very unreliably.
-
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