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- Path: news.ccs.queensu.ca!qucdn!leek
- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 22:00:26 EST
- From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <96002.220026LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Need information on Dell HD drives
- References: <4bsqte$occ@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> <4c3pnp$m6k@flood.xnet.com>
- <4c3t8o$8r4@idefix.eunet.fi> <4c42r8$2jh@serpens.rhein.de>
-
- In article <4c42r8$2jh@serpens.rhein.de>, mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van
- Elst) says:
- >
- >siren@dns.mikrobitti.fi (Janne Siren) writes:
- >
- >>Why don't Amiga Technologies license this technology or develop something
- >>similar themselves? They have said it can't be done without extra driver
-
- I got a chance to look at the Dell drive today in the store. I have to
- admit that they managed to get an ordinary laptop drive to work on the
- Amiga with a small dongle on the cable. They probably use the same trick that
- Apple uses to have variable speed drive ie prior art. It would mean
- someone could add in a $15 PCB on the back of a HD floppy drive to make it
- a HD. They might have pick Dell drives because it come in a case or
- other reasons.
-
- I have finally got my HD hack which is similar to the hack on Aminet
- working fine working the other day. I now understand what the other HD
- floppy did to the trackdisk.device. ;)
-
- > Michael van Elst
-
- BTW I got a job offer today designing cool Amiga hardware. Don't hold
- your breath, but there might be a cheap internal HD drive one of these
- days.
-
- K. C. Lee
-