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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 06:17:46 GMT
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- Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
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- : : No, it's using HD & DD floppies in a high density drive. I've found out
- : : that a lot of the errors I've gotten were from the HD floppy drive that
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- : I just don't believe that the half-speed mechanism is reliable. I don't
- : think it will be easy/cheap to MAKE a *reliable* half-speed HD drive.
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- It's been my experience that it's very unreliable and slow. I had to many
- problems from it so I took it out of my 4000 and replaced it with an
- external 880k drive. The 4000 has a jumper that will switch DF0: to the
- first external drive.
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- Chris Hall
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