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  1. Path: news.rmii.com!rainbow!mdaymon
  2. From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
  5. Date: 24 Jan 1996 00:31:33 GMT
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  13. Chris Hall (chall@clover.cleaf.com) wrote:
  14. : Warren Block (wblock@rapidnet.com) wrote:
  15. : : Just a guess, but you wouldn't happen to be using high density disks in a 
  16. : : double-density drive, would you?  This is exactly what happens.
  17.  
  18. : No, it's using HD & DD floppies in a high density drive. I've found out 
  19. : that a lot of the errors I've gotten were from the HD floppy drive that 
  20.  
  21. I just don't believe that the half-speed mechanism is reliable. I don't 
  22. think it will be easy/cheap to MAKE a *reliable* half-speed HD drive.
  23.